Written by Piero Messina via SouthFront

Someone in Washington is telling lies. Is Jen Psaki a liar? The White House spokesperson has branded the existence of chemical and biological research laboratories in Ukraine, also run by the US State Department, as fake news. Jen Psaki, then summoned the press to define the absurd allegations and an obvious ploy to try to justify further future attacks: “We took note of Russia’s false claims about alleged US biological weapons laboratories and chemical weapons development in Ukraine. We have also seen Chinese officials echo these conspiracy theories ”.

And again: “They are an obvious maneuver by Russia to try to justify its further premeditated, unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine … Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has apparently supported this propaganda, we should all be on the alert about Russia’s use of chemical weapons or expect Moscow to use them to create a pretext, that’s a clear pattern, he added. The worldwide front page headline for the next day is ready. Moscow is allegedly about to use chemical weapons, exploiting fake news from research laboratories.

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Psaki’s thesis is contradicted by a deposition made by Victoria Nuland in the US Senate just 24 hours earlier. And to be even more precise, the existence of those stars and stripes laboratories in Ukraine is confirmed directly by the US embassy in Kiev. Those laboratories exist and are part of the Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Program. It is quite evident that Jen Psaki blatantly lied. But for the international mainstream it doesn’t matter.

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Just as the information released by the Russian Defense Ministry is not even taken into consideration. For the Moscow government, “the information received from various sources confirms the leading role of the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency in financing and conducting military biological research on the territory of Ukraine”.

The Russian MoD report explains that “details of the UP-4 project became known, which was implemented with the participation of laboratories in Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa and was designed for the period up to 2020”.

The dangerous games of those laboratories have already been discovered: “Its purpose was to study the possibility of the spread of particularly dangerous infections through migrating birds, including highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza, the mortality rate of which reaches 50 percent for humans, as well as Newcastle disease “.

There would be a specific reason for placing those laboratories in Ukraine: “due to the fact that Ukraine has a unique geographical location where transcontinental migration routes intersect, 145 biological species were studied within the framework of this project. At the same time, at least two species of migratory birds were identified, whose routes pass mainly through the territory of Russia. At the same time, information about migration routes passing through the countries of Eastern Europe was summarized “.

The Russian government’s considerations are clear: “Of all the methods developed in the United States to destabilize the epidemiological situation, this is one of the most reckless and irresponsible, since it does not allow to control the further development of the situation. This is confirmed by the course of the pandemic of a new coronavirus infection, the occurrence and features of which raise many questions “.

According to russian MoD, “in addition, the R-781 project is interesting, where bats are considered as carriers of potential biological weapons agents. Among the priorities identified are the study of bacterial and viral pathogens that can be transmitted from bats to humans: pathogens of plague, leptospirosis, brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses and filoviruses. It is noteworthy that the research is carried out in close proximity to the borders of Russia – in the areas of the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus. The project is being implemented with the involvement of not only Ukrainian, but also Georgian biological laboratories controlled by the Pentagon in cooperation with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the US Geological Survey.

The analyzed materials on the UP-8 project, aimed at studying the Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever virus and hantaviruses in Ukraine, clearly refute the US public statement that only Ukrainian scientists work in the Pentagon biolabs in Ukraine without the intervention of American biologists. One of the documents confirms that all serious high-risk studies are conducted under the direct supervision of specialists from the United States.

The payroll of Ukrainian contractors clearly demonstrates how they are financed. It has been confirmed that the US Department of Defence paid the money for research participation directly, without the involvement of intermediaries. The extremely modest pay, by US standards, is noteworthy. This indicates a low estimation of the professionalism of Ukrainian specialists and the neglect of their American colleagues.

In addition, the studied materials contain proposals for the expansion of the US military-biological program in Ukraine. Thus, there was evidence of the continuation of completed biological projects UP-2, UP-9, UP-10, aimed at studying the pathogens of anthrax and African swine fever.

The Pentagon is also interested in insect vectors capable of spreading dangerous infectious diseases. The analysis of the obtained materials confirms the transfer of more than 140 containers with ectoparasites of bats – fleas and ticks from the biolab in Kharkov abroad.