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TRUTH behind Russian claims US using Ukraine as biological weapons base for BLACK DEATH

The Russian accusations come after the country's unprovoked attack on the Eastern European nation, which has already claimed 364 lives

BY DIVYA KISHORE

UPDATED MAR 7, 2022

Neighbours and relatives help remove the rubble of a house destroyed by shelling on March 5, 2022, in Markhalivka, Ukraine (Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images)

In order to defend its barbarism against Ukraine, Russia has reportedly started to disseminate fake propaganda against Kyiv as well as America. Moscow has accused Washington of using Ukraine to execute its illegal biological weapons research on deadly diseases, like the Black Death. It went on to claim that under an operation last month stocks of “dangerous pathogenic agents of the plague, anthrax, tularemia (rabbit fever), cholera and other lethal diseases” were wiped out by Ukraine so that Russian troops would not find any proof.

This comes as Russia’s unprovoked attack on the Eastern European nation has claimed the lives of around 364 people and injured at least 759. Foreign Policy magazine has also reported that Putin’s country started circulating false information long before the actual attack. It said, “In January, a Russian-language Telegram account warned that a ‘full-fledged network of biological laboratories has been deployed,’ studying deadly viruses that are already making people sick in Kazakhstan with ‘American grants.’”

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“The Russian newspaper Izvestia ran a story in May 2020 making similar claims, and they have been repeated in pro-Russian Ukrainian news sites. A close advisor of Russian President Vladimir Putin himself has accused the United States of developing ‘more and more biological laboratories … mainly by the Russian and Chinese borders,’” the magazine mentioned.

People walk the last few kilometres to the border with Poland on March 04, 2022 in Shehyni, Ukraine. More than a million people have fled Ukraine following Russia's large-scale assault on the country, with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians passing through Lviv on their way to Poland. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The Foreign Policy magazine added that not just Russia, China has also supported these lies. In May last year, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Hua Chunying insisted that the US “had been secretly working on biolabs and had 16 in Ukraine alone” while “Chinese state media has repeatedly spread the false claim that the coronavirus originated from the US Army base at Fort Detrick.” Not just that, Ukraine has also been accused of developing plutonium dirty bombs at Chernobyl by Russia.

Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov said, “It is clear that with the launch of the special military operation the Pentagon was seriously worried about disclosure of secret biological experiments in Ukraine.” Konashenkov continued that documents have been seen by them that “confirm that Ukrainian bio-laboratories in the immediate vicinity of Russian territory were engaged in developing components of biological weapons,” before adding: “Some of them, in particular instructions by the Ukrainian Health Ministry to destroy pathogens and the certificates of destruction at bio-laboratories in Poltava and Kharkiv, we're publishing right now.”

A woman cries after not being able to board an evacuation train that departed carrying women and children that fled fighting in Bucha and Irpin from Irpin City to Kyiv that was scheduled after heavy fighting overnight forced many to leave their homes on March 04, 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine. Russia continues its assault on Ukraine's major cities, including the capital Kyiv, a week after launching a large-scale invasion of the country. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Reportedly, another accusation from the Russian military stated that: “Nationalists mined a reactor at an experimental nuclear system located at the [National Research Center of] Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology. The Ukrainian military and the Azov battalion militants are planning to blow up the reactor and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly launching a missile strike on an experimental nuclear system.” The statement added that “on March 6, foreign journalists arrived in Kharkiv to register the consequences of the provocation, followed by accusing Russia of creating an environmental disaster.”

A father says goodbye to his children and wife as they evacuate Kyiv by train to western cities on March 3, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine.Russia continues assault on Ukraine's major cities, including the capital, a week after launching a large-scale invasion of the country. (Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, the US has given Poland the “green light” to help Ukraine. But Poland, for now, has decided not to send its fighter jets to aid Ukraine against Russia. On Monday, March 7, Marcin Przydacz, a deputy foreign minister, said in an interview on Radio Zet: "We will not open our airports and Polish planes will not fight over Ukraine... Polish planes will not fight over Ukraine."

But, separately, the Polish government’s spokesman Piotr Mueller indicated that a final decision had not been made, according to an Associated Press report. He said that the decision on whether to send fighter jets presents risks and is a “very delicate matter’. Earlier, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said they were in discussions with Poland to reach an agreement that would allow the Ukrainian Air Force to fly Poland's 28 Russian-made MiG-29 warplanes in return for US-made F-16s to tackle Moscow.