On April 11, Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian Armed Forces’ Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops, claimed that the United States clandestinely developed biological weapons in Ukraine.
Kirillov is a regular purveyor of disinformation. He previously spread the baseless claim that the U.S. is seeking “to develop bio-agents capable of targeting various ethnic groups.”
On March 10, Gen. Kirillov announced that documents obtained by Russia showed that the United States was trying to “develop bioagents capable of targeting various ethnic groups,” such as ethnic Slavs.No such effort, of course, existed. https://t.co/UpEU202PuQ
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Now, ramping up the “U.S. bioweapons” disinformation, Kirillov said this type of work has been conducted in parts of Ukraine currently occupied by Russia — namely Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk.
“We have no doubt that the United States, under the guise of ensuring global biosafety, conducted dual-use research, including the creation of biological weapons components in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders,” he said.
That is false.
There is no evidence the U.S. has ever developed or attempted to develop biological weapons near Russia’s borders.
The United States, like Ukraine, is party to the Biological Weapons Convention, which “effectively prohibits the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use of biological and toxin weapons.”
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