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A debunked conspiracy theory about US bio-weapons laboratories in Ukraine was seized on by Russian and Chinese media outlets
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A debunked conspiracy theory claimed Russia is targeting some Ukrainian cities due to the presence of US bio-weapons labs.
Touted by Infowars, the theory was seized on by state-linked media outlets in China and Russia.
The theory was also echoed by China's foreign ministry spokesman this week.
A debunked conspiracy theory touted by Infowars and Twitter conspiracy theorists about the US operating biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine has been seized on by Russian and Chinese news outlets.
On March 2, Foreign Policy reported on Twitter user WarClandestine's post in February that said: "It certainly appears Putin is targeting the cities and locations with #USBiolabs present. He is 100% going after the alleged bioweapons."
In the same thread, WarClandestine outlined what they said was credible evidence that the US had bioweapons in Ukraine. The account — which has since been suspended — was run by an individual named Jacob, who appeared to be American and claimed to have served in the US military, per Foreign Policy.
Following the tweet, the QAnon-linked Infowars platform published an article titled: "Russian Strikes Targeting US-Run Bio-Labs in Ukraine?" Citing information from various Twitter posts, the article claimed that US biological weapons laboratories "are believed to operate in many cities that were recently attacked by Russia."
Two fact-checking websites — Politifact and FactCheck.org — countered these claims, asserting that the US does not operate any biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine.
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Far-right conspiracy theorists regurgitate Russian propaganda about U.S. bioweapons labs in Ukraine
Claire Goforth - Yesterday 12:44 PM
Far-right figures and conspiracists are spreading a reportedly false claim that the United States has bioweapons labs in Ukraine. The Kremlin-backed rumor is being used to justify the Russian invasion.
Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. The unprovoked assault has rallied global support for Ukraine and isolated Russia on multiple fronts.
The Kremlin has floated justifications for attacking Ukraine that are either wholly false or greatly exaggerated, such as that the invasion is intended to eradicate neo-Nazis from power in a nation whose president is the Jewish grandson of a Holocaust survivor.
Russia is now claiming that the U.S. sponsors labs in Ukraine that manufacture dangerous viruses in violation of international law. On Monday, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) wrote on its recently established Telegram channel that the two countries were studying and creating anthrax, Black Death, and other deadly viruses in labs in several Ukrainian cities.
"The nomenclature and excessive number of bio-pathogens indicate that the work was carried out within the framework of military biological programs," MoD wrote.
Russian state news agency TASS alleges that the U.S. and Ukraine destroyed these materials in an apparent coverup when Russia invaded.
Russia's claim about bioweapons labs in Ukraine is false, according to several sources, some of whom referred to it as "disinformation." Sky News reports that the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense referred to the claim as an attempt to create a "retrospective justification" for attacking Ukraine.
The Atlantic Council added that the Kremlin is recycling "old narratives" about bioweapons and dirty bombs to justify its invasion. The Daily Mail referred to the allegation as "Russia's latest 'false flag' … to galvanize domestic support for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's war."
Far-right figures and conspiracy theorists in the U.S. are nevertheless uncritically repeating Russia's claim about U.S. bioweapons labs in Ukraine.
In its Monday email, social media platform Gab included a link to a story about the alleged bioweapons. The article in Big League Politics broadly argues that western nations, including the U.S., caused Russia to invade Ukraine.
"If these shocking revelations [about bioweapons labs] are true, it flips the entire Western narrative about Ukraine on its head, with Russia perhaps being the good guys engaging in a liberation of Ukraine from corrupt globalist powers," it states.
QAnon conspiracy theorists are also circulating the Kremlin-backed rumor.
QAnon influencer Jeffrey Pedersen, better known as In The Matrixxx, posted about the supposed labs on Telegram on Tuesday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10593689/Ukraine-war-Russia-launches-fresh-attempt-justify-Putins-invasion.html
The Kremlin has accused the US of 'waging economic war' on Russia and of helping Ukraine to develop bioweapons as part of a renewed push to justify Putin's war.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's spokesman, said today that a 'hostile bacchanalia' of sanctions had hit Russia - forcing Putin to 'think very carefully' about next steps. It comes after the US and Europe targeted the country's valuable energy exports.
Peskov also parroted allegations, trumpeted earlier in the day by foreign ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova and Russian state media, that America has been funding bioweapons labs in Ukraine that housed samples of cholera.
The chemical weapons line has also been spread by state media in both Russia and China, alleging that Ukraine had an American-bankrolled WMD programme that again forced Putin to take action.
Zakharova, speaking in Moscow today, claimed that Russia has uncovered communications between the US and Ukraine 'looking for opportunities to develop [biological] weapons' with funding from Washington.
She claimed, without evidence, that orders had been given to staff of those labs to start destroying samples of viruses including 'cholera and other pathogens' on February 24 - conveniently linking it with the date of Putin's order to attack.
The kernel of truth at the centre of Russia's claims is that the US does help Ukraine to run biolabs, but they are in fact biosafety labs - designed to detect and track outbreaks of disease that could pose a security risk.
The focus on WMDs in Ukraine appears to be part of an attempt to justify the invasion of Ukraine by comparing it to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
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