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Sunday, May 17, 2026

White House denies Russia and China's claims about US Biolabs in Ukraine - Marca English

t all started with a wild conspiracy theory from a Twitter account by the name of War Clandestine. The person who made this alleged find, realized many of the targets Russia was bombing were strangely similar to previous claims of alleged biolabs where the United States was making chemical weapons. This theory was quickly debunked by the most respected media outlets and fact chackers around the world. But this is the exact conspiracy theory that gulible conservatives tend to fall for. Russia and China's state media outlets started reporting on it and that's when the White House had to step in. Press Secretary Jen Psaki wrote a Twitter thread in which she warns Russia might use this as a false flag operation to use chemical weapons in Ukraine as they have done in Syria.

How did the White House respond to the #USBiolabs trend?

The Twitter hashtag started spreading like wildfire despite Twitter's attempts to block it as false information. Jen PSaki couldn't ignore it anymore. Here's what she wrote on a Twitter thread: "We took note of Russia's false claims about alleged U.S. biological weapons labs and chemical weapons development in Ukraine. We've also seen Chinese officials echo these conspiracy theories. This is preposterous. It's the kind of disinformation operation we've seen repeatedly from the Russians over the years in Ukraine and in other countries, which have been debunked, and an example of the types of false pretexts we have been warning the Russians would...



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