Ukraine US biolabs

Russian accusations of a U.Due south.-funded and administered 'biowarfares' laboratory research program in Ukraine has led to rampant speculation most the nature of these Pentagon-funded laboratories. The Russians' insistence that it has evidence of such a bioweapons program has go a major hurdle at the diplomatic negotiations between Russian federation and Ukraine in Republic of belarus.

Russian foreign government minister Sergei Lavrov charged at a press conference last week that "the Pentagon built two biowarfare labs and they have been developing pathogens there in Kyiv and in Odessa." Lavrov also compared the presence of the laboratories to the United States' Weapons of Mass Devastation program allegations that led it to invade Iraq in 2003 and topple dictator Saddam Hussein.

Leonid Slutsky, head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs and a member of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, argued that the purported development of biological weapons components "confirm that the Russian Federation had skillful reasons for conducting a special military machine functioning to demilitarize Ukraine."

Major General Igor Konashenkov, an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, charged on Sunday that "components of biological weapons were being developed in Ukraine, in close proximity to Russian territory."

Amid the Russians' accusations, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has scrubbed a number of documents related to the Ukrainian "Biological Threat Reduction" program.

Those documents take been retrieved and tin can exist read beneath. The documents testify both the locations of the Ukrainian laboratories and the Department of Defence's listing every bit a "donor" to the program.

"The Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance Arrangement (EIDSS) is a software organization which is designed to strengthen monitoring and prevention of human and beast diseases within the Ane Health concept, and facilitate compliance of International Wellness Regulations (IHR) 2005," the embassy document states.

In 2011 EIDSS was introduced in Ukraine with installations at the post-obit sites:

  • Central Sanitary-Epidemiology Station in Kyiv (CSES)
  • Ukrainian Research Anti-Plague Institute in Odessa (URAPI)
  • Vinnitsa Oblast Sanitary-Epidemiological Station
  • Vinnitsa Urban center Germ-free- Epidemiological Station
  • Kalynivska Rayon Sanitary- Epidemiological Station in Vinnitsa Oblast
  • Zhitomir Oblast Sanitary- Epidemiological Station
  • Khmelnitska Oblast Sanitary- Epidemiological Station as regional sites

"The principal objective of the plan is to implement EIDSS at the sites of the Country Sanitary-Epidemiological Service of Ukraine for monitoring and outbreak prevention of diseases including those caused by Particularly Dangerous Pathogens," the document adds.

The Department of Defense expenditures equally listed for select Ukrainian laboratories follow below:

  • Dnipropetrovsk Diagnostic Laboratory (USD $i,935,557)
  • Dnipropetrovsk Country Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory (USD $1,810, 547)
  • Kharkiv Diagnostic Laboratory (USD $ane,638,375)
  • Luhansk Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory (USD $1,746,312)
  • Lviv Diagnostic Laboratory (USD $1,927,158)
  • Lviv Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory (USD $ane,734,971)
  • Vinnytsia Oblast Laboratory Center (USD $1,504,840)
  • Zakarpartska Oblast Laboratory Middle (USD $1,920,432)
  • Institute of Veterinary Medicine of the National University of Agrarian Sciences ( USD $2,109,375.23)

The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine explained the operation of the laboratories and accused the Russians of spreading disinformation about their nature in 2020. Picket:

"The biological threat reduction program is working in 27 countries," the U.S. ambassador to Republic of kazakhstan William Moser said. "We've experience this disinformation and misinformation is done but to actually exploit divisions."

"We've had accusations that some enquiry projects were beingness used to create threats, not to place threats and reduce them," Dr. Mary Lancaster added. "Ulterior motives are beingness injected where none be."

"We've congenital these capabilities for the partners, their central reference labs for inquiry," Lance Brooks said. "They publish everything they do. They invite the international community into their laboratories. They're working on behalf and the benefit of the people of their respective countries."

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, however, has defendant the U.S. and Ukraine of a lack of transparency.

"We take data that the Pentagon is preoccupied with the chemical and biological installations in Ukraine," Lavrov claimed. "The Pentagon built two biowarfare labs and they take been developing pathogens in that location in Kyiv and in Odessa."

"And at present they are concerned that they may lose control over these labs," he argued. "And you know what it may be like in future. And the Americans decline flatly and resolutely to starting time an inspection mechanism every bit part of the convention for the prohibition of chemical weapons. And they build new chemical and biological facilities all across Russian borders."

"And, you know, many other developments happen," Lavrov went on. "The CIA has been on the ground in droves, and they have been training the Ukrainian army, not to wage a war with Poland, manifestly. And when developments in Iraq happened, when the United States claimed information technology was a threat to the U.S. national security, did anyone ask back then why the U.s.a. back then decided to bring a state ten,000 kilometers off its coast to order, because the U.S. is a great ability?"

"When Russia says there is a threat to us, they first telling the states that there is not a threat at all, but you know, we will decide what is needed to provide for our security," Lavrov stated. "And it'south shut and side by side to our borders, we volition not go x,000 kilometers away to enforce our rules."

Russia is therefore invoking the United States' invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a pretext for invading Ukraine. It turned out later the invasion that weapons inspectors could find scant if any evidence that then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was maintaining an agile Weapons of Mass Devastation (WMD) program. However, the New York Times reported that Republic of iraq had former stockpiles of WMDs that were discovered by U.S. soldiers.

In May 2020, Lavrov accused the United states of america "categorically opposing the adoption of a protocol to the convention of banning biological and toxin weapons, which would found a mechanism to verify compliance by member countries with their obligation not to produce such weapons."

"The United states' reluctance to ensure transparency of its military-biological activities in different regions of the earth, of class, raises questions nearly what is really happening and what goals are being pursued," Lavrov said at a news conference after a virtial coming together with foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

"These laboratories are densely formed along the perimeter of the borders of the Russian Federation, and, appropriately, next to the borders of the People'due south Republic of Prc," Lavrov added.

The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has published information almost its "Biological Threat Reduction Program" in Ukraine:

The U.S. Section of Defense'south Biological Threat Reduction Programme collaborates with partner countries to counter the threat of outbreaks (deliberate, accidental, or natural) of the world's nearly unsafe infectious diseases. The program accomplishes its bio-threat reduction mission through development of a bio-risk management culture; international enquiry partnerships; and partner capacity for enhanced bio-security, bio-safety, and bio-surveillance measures. The Biological Threat Reduction Program's priorities in Ukraine are to consolidate and secure pathogens and toxins of security concern and to go along to ensure Ukraine can discover and report outbreaks caused past dangerous pathogens earlier they pose security or stability threats.

Current executive agents of the Biological Threat Reduction Program in Ukraine are the Ministry of Wellness, the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, the National Academy of Agrestal Sciences, and the Ministry of Defence force.

The fact sheets on the U.S. Diplomatic mission in Ukraine website on the following laboratories are cited above.

Ukraine lab reports

  • Lviv Diagnostic Laboratory (PDF 101 KB)
  • Lviv Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory (PDF 101 KB)
  • Kharkiv Diagnostic Laboratory (PDF 98 KB)
  • Luhansk Regional Diagnostic Veterinary Laboratory (Luhansk RDVL) (PDF 91 KB)
  • Dnipropetrovsk Diagnostic Laboratory (PDF 102 KB)
  • Vinnytsia Diagnostic Laboratory (Vinnytsia DL) (PDF 99 KB)

The U.S. embassy website partly corroborates a 'viral map' that purports to show American biological laboratories in Ukraine.

Ukraine biolabs

In that location is no potent evidence of U.Southward. funded "bioweapons" research in Ukraine. Therefore, there is a strong possibility that this is Russian disinformation. But the U.Due south. embassy in Ukraine lists biological "threat reduction" laboratories, similar to the ones the U.S. funded in Wuhan. The readers tin describe their own conclusions.