U.S. DENIES FUNDING BIOLIGICAL WEAPON LABS BUT CONFIRMS BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITIES IN UKRAINE

https://www.workers.org/2022/03/62391/

While the U.S. corporate media denies the presence of U.S.-funded “biolabs” in Ukraine as “QAnon conspiracy theories,” Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing March 8 and confirmed “Ukraine has biological research facilities.” Nuland said the U.S. is “working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces, should they approach.” (cspan.org, March 8)

Nuland’s testimony begs the question: If the research the U.S. was funding in these Ukrainian biological laboratories is innocent, why is Nuland so concerned that this research material could fall into Russian hands? Russia is a world leader in scientific research, so much that they beat U.S. Big Pharma in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. (tinyurl.com/yc7twhu5)

The only reasonable explanation for Nuland’s concern is that Russian forces could definitively expose the bioweapons research funded by the U.S. as a direct violation of the United Nations Biological Weapons Convention, which “effectively prohibits the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of biological and toxin weapons.” (tinyurl.com/2p88d5dv)

Nuland had played a key role in the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in 2013-14, where she gained notoriety for her statement, “Fxxk the EU.”

On March 7, Russian Armed Forces revealed they had found dozens of biological laboratories in Ukraine and had obtained documents that proved researchers were weaponizing anthrax, among other pathogens. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov claimed that the only reason Kiev reportedly moved to destroy the materials was out of concern that Russian experts “will highly likely prove Ukraine and the U.S. have been in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention,” once they study the samples.