{"id":1357592,"date":"2022-03-03T21:01:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T02:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357592"},"modified":"2022-03-03T21:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T02:03:25","slug":"russia-claims-pentagon-biological-war-labs-developing-pathogens-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-claims-pentagon-biological-war-labs-developing-pathogens-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Claims Pentagon &#039;Biological War Labs&#039; Developing &#039;Pathogens&#039; in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-claims-pentagon-biological-war-labs-developing-pathogens-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1357592&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Sergey-Lavrov-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia will continue its \u201cmilitary operation\u201d in Ukraine even if a peace deal is made until the process of \u201cdemilitarization\u201d and \u201cde-Nazification\u201d is completed to Moscow\u2019s satisfaction and Ukraine is stripped of weapons of mass destruction \u2013 including chemical and biological weapons he accused the United States of developing on Ukrainian soil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDemilitarization, in the sense of destroying the military infrastructure that threatens us, will be brought to an end, even if we sign a peace agreement. It will necessarily have to include such a clause,\u201d Lavrov <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/politics\/russia-to-continue-military-operation-in-ukraine-even-in-case-of-peace-agreement\/2522563\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> from Moscow in an internationally televised interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Lavrov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V0I5eglJMRI\">began<\/a> with a rambling speech about the U.S. supposedly using Ukraine in a bid to conquer Europe, similar to those of Napoleon and Hitler, and claimed Russia was invading Ukraine with murderous force to liberate Ukrainians from American and European Union domination so they could chart their own destiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lavrov insisted Russia is acting with care and responsibility according to strict \u201cprotocols\u201d regarding nuclear weapons, while \u201cerratic\u201d Ukrainian, NATO, and American officials make irresponsible nuclear threats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt is in the minds of the Western politicians that they keep returning to nuclear war,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not in our minds, so we will not allow any provocations to take us out of equilibrium.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have data that the Pentagon is preoccupied with chemical and biological installations in Ukraine. The Pentagon built two biological war labs, and they have been developing pathogens there, in Kyiv and in Odessa. Now they are concerned that they may lose control over these labs,\u201d Lavrov charged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAmericans declined, flatly and resolutely, to start an inspection mechanism as part of the prohibition of chemical weapons, and they build new chemical and biological facilities all across the Russian borders,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It should be noted that most of the foreign journalists asking questions in the interview were openly incredulous of Lavrov\u2019s statements, and several of them flatly accused him of lying and covering up Russian war crimes. The notable exception was the much friendlier journalist from China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Russia has been spreading wild claims of American biological warfare labs in Ukraine for several years. Those claims were <a href=\"https:\/\/newsaf.cgtn.com\/news\/2020-05-16\/Time-to-reveal-what-s-going-on-in-U-S-biolabs-QwpxrRTI7C\/index.html\">eagerly boosted<\/a> by Chinese state media, which mixed them with Beijing\u2019s deranged conspiracy theory about the Wuhan coronavirus originating in a U.S. Army lab in Maryland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Thursday, the same day Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered the attack on Ukraine, Russian propaganda outlets <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2022\/02\/25\/fact-check-claim-us-biolabs-ukraine-disinformation\/6937923001\/\"><span>circulated<\/span><\/a><span> a map purportedly showing dozens of secret American labs across Ukraine, with 11 of them already targeted and destroyed by Russian missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>International media organizations debunked the Russian claims and noted Russia has been running disinformation campaigns accusing the U.S. of manufacturing chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine for years. The Russian tale was fabricated out of an agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine to modernize Ukrainian virology labs, some of which are dedicated to defense against weaponized pathogens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ua.usembassy.gov\/u-s-ukraine-partnership-to-reduce-biological-threats\/\"><span>debunked<\/span><\/a><span> a Russian disinformation campaign about the biological laboratories in April 2020, providing documentation that showed the laboratories in question are operated by the Ukrainian government in partnership with the U.S. Biological Threat Reduction Program, carefully monitored for safety, and dedicated to \u201cpeaceful research and vaccine development.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Russian loyalists in the Ukrainian political opposition nevertheless seized on the \u201cbioweapons laboratory\u201d disinformation campaign in the spring of 2020, theatrically amplifying the controversy with demands for the Ukrainian government to hand over documents on the \u201cinstances of illegal cooperation between Ukraine and the United States concerning the activity of U.S. biolaboratories in our country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chief among the pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine to push the \u201cPentagon bio-labs\u201d campaign was Viktor Medvedchuk, who is now the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/if-putin-picks-puppet-ukraine-leader-viktor-medvedchuk-odds-favorite-1682429\"><span>odds-on favorite<\/span><\/a><span> to be installed as leader of Ukraine if Russia is able to remove the elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Medvedchuk is an oligarch with extensive Russian business interests who named Putin as the godfather of his daughter, making him a reliable choice to run Ukraine as a Russian vassal state. He is currently under house arrest in the suburbs of Kyiv on treason charges for backing pro-Russian separatist forces in the eastern Donbas region.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia will continue its \u201cmilitary operation\u201d in Ukraine even if a peace deal is made until the process of \u201cdemilitarization\u201d and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}