Posted on 03/08/2022 7:28:28 PM PST by BenLurkin
The Russian invasion of Ukraine may put at risk a network of US-linked labs in Ukraine that work with dangerous pathogens...
The US government maintains that they are public and animal health labs operated by host countries.
[Robert Pope, the director of the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program]said the labs conduct peaceful scientific research and disease surveillance. Outside experts have also said Pope’s program is not a covert bioweapons operation.
While the United States isn’t maintaining bioweapons facilities, Pope said, war could put pathogen collections in Ukraine at risk.
The pathogens in Ukrainian labs vary by facility, Pope said, but some can be characterized as presenting a concern in the Ukrainian environment. As an example, he cited African swine fever virus, which is highly contagious in pigs and has caused hundreds of outbreaks in Ukraine since 2012. Some labs, he said, may hold pathogen strains left over from the Soviet bioweapons program, preserved in freezers for research purposes.
The program is encouraging host countries to reduce the scope of their pathogen holdings to as small of a collection as necessary for legitimate scientific research, Pope said.
This work, Pope said, continued in Ukraine until recently. “They have more pathogens in more places than we recommend,” he said. The program had been helping Ukrainian researchers sift through their frozen pathogen collections, with the goal of persuading the Ukrainians to preserve their genetic information of samples via sequencing before destroying the live samples.
Some Ukrainian labs, like the Ukrainian Ministry of Health’s Public Health Center, Pope said, are major facilities, others small. Some are new, while others date back to the Soviet-era and the country’s bioweapons program.
The US government has worked with 26 facilities in Ukraine. Before the invasion, the program provided direct material support to six Ukrainian labs.
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Yeah. Amazing isn’t it
Why do we trust China with them, but not Russia?
“Thirty years after the “threat reduction” started rounding up Soviet bioweapons for destruction”
“Threat reduction” was just a transfer of assets to the CIA.
Maybe we should send Hans Blix into Ukraine to hunt for WMD’s. lol
Good thing the prevailing winds blow west to east. It would be a shame for Russia to be on the receiving end.
https://archive.ph/ekLIF <- embassy site
Summary of funds spent on these US DoD Biolabs in Ukraine:
Kiev Lab $2,109,375.23 USD
Dnipropetrovsk Lab #1 $1,810,547 USD
Dnipropetrovsk Lab #2 $1,935,557 USD
Lviv Lab #1 $1,734,971 USD
Lviv Lab #2 $1,927,158 USD
Zakarpartska Lab $1,920,432 USD
Ternopil Lab $1,755,786 USD
Kherson Lab $1,728,822 USD
Vinnytsia Lab $1,504,840 USD
Luhansk Lab $1,746,312 USD
Kharkiv Lab $1,638,375 USD
Archives of those docs here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170130193016/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-kharkiv-eng.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20210511164310/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-luhansk-eng.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20170221125752/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-dnipropetrovsk-eng.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20210506053014/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-vinnitsa-eng.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20170221125752/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-dnipropetrovsk-eng.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20170207122550/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-kherson-fact-sheet-eng.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20170223011502/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-ternopil-fact-sheet-eng.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20170208032526/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-zakarpatska-fact-sheet-eng.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20170202040923/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-lviv-dl-eng.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20170201004446/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-lviv-rdvl-eng.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20161230143004/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-eidss.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20210506212717/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/dtro-pathogen-asset-control.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20170211022339/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/ukraine/895/pdf/kiev-ivm-fact-sheet-eng.pdf
Everything in the Ukraine is actually run by the deep state. The US is very involved. Those labs are for very dark purposed. Gee I wonder why Putin was freaked.
Oh, goody...the next “pandemic” is coming....
So which is it to be nuc’s or bio.
Thank you. The DOD pulled those docs off their website Feb 26th, IIRC. If you look at a map, Russia bombed those sites as their first action in Ukraine.
“We don’t make any of those biological weapons here. We just make cranberry sauce. Ummmm…..kind of dangerous cranberry sauce.”
Here’s the CSPAN source in case anyone points out it’s RT and a deepfake or some BS.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?518355-1/secretary-state-political-affairs-testifies-ukraine#
search for biological or go to 40:24 (Marco Rubio question)
You’re breaking my Barrs, Hans...
I guess WUHAN was just the
Tip of the iceberg for
Our Medical Mad Scientists.
USA
USA
USA
USA.
Mad Scientists UNITED!
.
Some just want to
Watch the World Burn.
Can we once again request Fauci’s emails?
Putin blew those labs to smithereens in the first two or three days. Thank God.
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