Ukraine-Russia war live updates: Top diplomats meet for talks; Kyiv calls Mariupol hospital strike a war crime
NBCAPR 2022
Russia's claims of US-backed bio-weapons facilities in Ukraine is typical propaganda. As Psaki said, this is an obvious ploy by Russia to justify its further premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack on Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia has its own notorious history with chemical weapons.
The documents – which show Ukraine's Ministry of Health ordering bio-labs to destroy pathogens including anthrax and cholera on Feb. 24 – are proof that the US violated Article 1 of the UN's Biological Weapons Convention in facilitating this research. The international community should be seeking answers.
The US media has for weeks dismissed claims that US-backed biological weapons labs existed in Ukraine. Nuland's admission that they are worried of "biological research facilities" falling into Russian hands isn't proof these are bio-weapons labs, but suggests that tough questions about these labs should be pursued rather than dismissed.