US slams ‘absurd’ and ‘laughable’ claim the Pentagon is operating ‘dangerous’ bio labs in Ukraine after China backed Kremlin allegations of research on Black Death, anthrax and rabbit fever
- China is backing a Russian conspiracy that the U.S. is funding biological weapons labs in Ukraine to study Black Death, anthrax and rabbit fever
- A defense official told Fox News the claim is ‘absurd, laughable and untrue’
- Russia made the claim this week as retroactive justification for invasion
- ‘U.S. biolabs in Ukraine have indeed attracted much attention recently,’ Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Tuesday
- Russia claimed that Ukraine destroyed stocks of ‘dangerous pathogenic agents’ because they were afraid Russia would discover the weapons
- Such a program would flout the Biological Weapons Convention if it existed
- It is the latest in a frenzy of scare stories meant to justify the Ukrainian invasion
- Russia has made similar claims before, with a close adviser to Putin claiming last year that the U.S. was developing biological laboratories by the Russian border
The Pentagon dismissed on Wednesday claims the U.S. is operating biological labs out of Ukraine as ‘malarkey’ after China backed Russia’s conspiracy the Washington is creating biological weapons in Eastern Europe.
‘The Russian accusations are absurd – they’re laughable and are, in the words of my Irish Catholic grandfather, ‘a bunch of malarkey,’ Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said during a briefing.
‘There’s nothing to it,’ he continued. ‘It’s classic Russian propaganda.’