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US bio labs in the Ukraine - Sergey Lavrov said it, so it must be true
2022-03-04
[Breitbart] Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia will continue its "military operation" in Ukraine even if a peace deal is made until the process of "demilitarization" and "de-Nazification" is completed to Moscow’s satisfaction and Ukraine is stripped of weapons of mass destruction — including chemical and biological weapons he accused the United States of developing on Ukrainian soil.

"Demilitarization, 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," Lavrov said from Moscow in an internationally televised interview.

Lavrov began 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.

Lavrov insisted Russia is acting with care and responsibility according to strict "protocols" regarding nuclear weapons, while "erratic" Ukrainian, NATO, and American officials make irresponsible nuclear threats.

"It is in the minds of the Western politicians that they keep returning to nuclear war," he said. "It’s not in our minds, so we will not allow any provocations to take us out of equilibrium."

"We 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," Lavrov charged.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Obama? More than a decade too late.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-03-04 11:40  

#4  Obama launched the Cooperative Threat Reduction when the USSR dissolved, but many former Soviet bio and other WMD experts found themselves poorly paid or not paid at all. Bio and rad materials began finding their way to the underground economy and in some cases to jihadi groups.

The US began working with some of the experts in non-Russian former USSR republics like Georgia, using their expertise to build detection capabilities, at least in theory.
Posted by: Alistaire Clunk8424   2022-03-04 08:34  

#3  After all, it wasn’t any of the labs in the Former Soviet Union that possibly accidentally released the Wuhan flu on an unsuspecting world in 2019.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-03-04 00:52  

#2  How many of those labs were originally Soviet bio labs? As one of the two superpowers of the Cold War, the Soviet Union pursued biological warfare as thoroughly as it did chemical warfare, nuclear warfare, conventional warfare, guerrilla warfare, propaganda warfare. etc

As I recall, the thinking when the Soviet Union fell was that America would pay the salaries of as many of the scientists and engineers as possible thereafter, so that they would not be tempted to sell their services to terrorist and criminal groups. If the labs are still staffed now, it must have worked.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-03-04 00:49  

#1  Actually, the US Embassy in the (old, pre-Russian) Kiev said it.
And then tried to bury it by deleting all the .pdfs of the many announcements they'd previously posted at their website
Posted by: Cheremble Thomomp9871   2022-03-04 00:41  

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