UN Says It's Not Aware Of Any Biological Weapons Program In Ukraine

Rogue Valley · Mar 12, 2022

UN Says It's Not Aware Of Any Biological Weapons Program In Ukraine

The United Nations on March 11 said it was not aware of any biological weapons program in Ukraine, while Washington expressed concern that Russia was spreading the unproven claim in order to launch its own biological or chemical attacks.

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The United Nations on March 11 said it was not aware of any biological weapons program in Ukraine, while Washington expressed concern that Russia was spreading the unproven claim in order to launch its own biological or chemical attacks. Russia had requested a Security Council meeting to address its allegations of U.S. “biological activities” in Ukraine -- a charge made without any evidence and denied by both Washington and Kyiv. Izumi Nakamitsu, the UN high representative for disarmament affairs, told the council that the United Nations is "not aware" of any biological weapons program in Ukraine. The Russian envoy to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, repeated the claim -- without providing evidence -- that Ukraine ran biological weapons laboratories with U.S. Defense Department support. Under a 2005 agreement, the Pentagon has assisted several Ukrainian public health laboratories with improving the security of dangerous pathogens and technology used in research.

The U.S. envoy to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said Washington was "deeply concerned" that Russia called the session as a "false flag effort" aimed at laying the groundwork for its own use of biological or chemical weapons in Ukraine. "Russia has a track record of falsely accusing other countries of the very violations that Russia itself is perpetrating,” Thomas-Greenfield said. She added: "We have serious concerns that Russia may be planning to use chemical or biological agents against the Ukrainian people.” “We believe Russia could use chemical or biological agents for assassinations, as part of a staged or false flag incident, or to support tactical military operations,” she said. Britain’s UN ambassador, Barbara Woodward, called Moscow’s allegations “utter nonsense” and said “Russia is sinking to new depths today, but the council must not get dragged down with it.

I hope everyone remembers that Russian agents poisoned Alexander Litvenenko with radioactive Polonium-210 in London/2006.

Russian agents also used Novichok, a nerve agent, in an attempt to kill Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England/2018.

Russian agents also used Novichok against activist Alexei Navalny on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. An emergency landing in Omsk saved his life in 2020.

Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko - Wikipedia

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Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal - Wikipedia

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Poisoning of Alexei Navalny - Wikipedia

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Doug64 · Mar 13, 2022

There are bio labs with dangerous substances in Ukraine, an administration official has stated as much in congressional testimony. The problem is, how do you define "biological weapons laboratory"? We can be pretty sure that there are countries hostile to us studying biological weapons (the fools!), and we would be irresponsible not to study how to combat that threat. But how do you study how to combat biological weapons if you don't study the weapons themselves? As well, it's possible to study dangerous biologicals without any intention of weaponizing them, with terrible consequences if they escape. (The Wuhan virus pandemic we are currently recovering from may well be proof of that.) So yes, Putin is almost certainly taking a kernel of truth and twisting it to justify his own behavior and goals. Fortunately, no one seems to be buying it for a second. Though by this time, if Putin said the sun rises in the east you might want to independently verify it.

Rogue Valley · Mar 13, 2022

Doug64 said:
There are bio labs with dangerous substances in Ukraine, an administration official has stated as much in congressional testimony.

If you mean dangerous substances like the COVID-19 virus, she is absolutely right.

Almost every modern nation has such health-safety labs.