(John Ransom, Headline USA) Red Voice media has published a tweet from a user claiming that the real reason for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is because the country hosts eight US bioweapons laboratories.
“We started looking into the biolabs that allegedly reside in Ukraine and are funded by the United States, and it’s almost impossible to find any real information because mainstream media has ‘debunked’ these claims,” said Red Voice.
As a result, Red Voice thinks the idea deserves more scrutiny.
I think I found out why you guys are so interested in Ukraine. What exactly would a mistake bio weapons lab be located anywhere near there let alone 8 of them? pic.twitter.com/XvoqxYczvv
— Another freaking tragedy 2 (@FestusMcgilicu1) February 24, 2022
Given how many times people have been subjected to the mainstream media debunking a story that they later were proved to be wrong about, it’s little wonder that Red Voice expressed skepticism about the claim the US doesn’t host bioweapons labs in Ukraine.
In support of the claim of US weapons facilities on Ukraine soil, Red Voice shared a tweet that has a photo of eight bio-radiological hazard signs designating where the US facilities are located.
“I think I found out why you guys are so interested in Ukraine. What exactly would a … bio weapons lab be located anywhere near there let alone 8 of them,” said the Twitter user in response to a tweet from Joe Biden, blasting the Russians for the Ukraine invasion.
Robert Pope, the director of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, a 30-year-old Defense Department program that has helped bio-labs in former Soviet Republics, like Ukraine, secure dangerous Russian research and repurpose the labs toward detection and surveillance of biohazards, said that labs are not US facilities, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
“The US government maintains that they are public and animal health labs operated by host countries,” said the Bulletin.
That claim by the US and denials by Ukraine, likely won’t satisfy skeptics who only have to point to similar denials by the government that the US-funded gain-of-function research at the very lab at the heart of the COVID lab-leak theory, to make their point.
Fact-checkers, like Poynter, have been quick to say there are no “U.S. military-run” biolabs in Ukraine while allowing that the US does provide funding for the labs and ignoring that such research is usually conducted by civilian scientists, not US military personnel.
Still, Pope warns that the Russian invasion could put at risk the release of dangerous pathogens, no matter who owns the facilities.
“If you lose the electrical power, the pathogens in the freezers warm up,” Pope said. “If the ventilation system is damaged, or the building itself is damaged, and these now ambient-temperature pathogens are able to escape the facility, then they can be potentially infectious in the region around the facility.”
