The World Health Organization told Reuters on Thursday that it advised the Ukrainian Health Ministry to destroy “high-threat pathogens” held in labs around the time Russia invaded Ukraine.
“As part of this work, WHO has strongly recommended to the Ministry of Health in Ukraine and other responsible bodies to destroy high-threat pathogens to prevent any potential spills,” the WHO said in response to questions about its work with Ukraine before and during Russia’s invasion.
The WHO would not specify what kinds of pathogens were housed in the Ukrainian labs, nor would it say when it advised Ukraine to destroy them. Russia claims to have documents that show the Ukrainian Health Ministry ordered the destruction of samples of plague, cholera, anthrax, and other pathogens kept at US-linked labs around the time Russia launched its attack on February 24.
Russia has accused the US of having bioweapons labs in Ukraine, an accusation the Biden administration has tried to dismiss as Russian propaganda. But there are US-linked biological research labs inside Ukraine funded by the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), and they could contain bioweapons, according to Robert Pope, the director of the Pentagon’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.
Pope told the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in a February 25 article that the US-linked labs inside Ukraine could contain pathogens leftover from the Soviet Union’s bioweapons program while insisting that the facilities are no longer capable of producing such pathogens.
“There is no place that still has any of the sort of infrastructure for researching or producing biological weapons,” he said. “Scientists being scientists, it wouldn’t surprise me if some of these strain collections in some of these laboratories still have pathogen strains that go all the way back to the origins of that program.”
Pope warned that dangerous pathogens could be released if the facilities are damaged by the fighting in Ukraine. According to the Bulletin article, the US has worked with 26 biological research facilities inside Ukraine and has provided direct material support to six of them.
The US maintains that the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program works to reduce the threat of leftover weapons of mass destruction inside former Soviet states, not develop new ones. But either way, Pope’s comments make it clear that there’s no denying the possibility of bioweapons being in the Ukraine labs.
Earlier this week, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland was asked at a Senate hearing if Ukraine had bioweapons. She responded by saying Ukraine has “biological research facilities” the US is working to keep out of Russia’s hands.
Still not clear what role if any WHO has in creatingv those labs? Any point in involving WHO. Ir is itvto just start throwing nanes around, to make it look less of sn American problem.
WHO made the statement public today, it was them who released it. We didn’t just find some random quote.
WHO is a US tool the lies about the chemical attacks in Syria proved that
The original, oldest facilities would have been Soviet.
The WHO doesn’t enter the picture till well after the Soviet era.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a06796efa2c3130f0a25b7f85b81c355300930c4f74a9bf401c6e237ba1739cc.jpg Did someone mention WMDs as a justification for war ?
International laws and treaties that the USA supposedly acts upon to “protect humanity” do NOT apply to the USA or Israel. It is a double standards world!
It’s been a double standards world for quite some time…
Nuland seems pretty eager to make sure the US stays Deeply involved with Ukraine.
First she went off-script to acknowledge Pentagon involvement, refreshing the bear bait, then walked back to the original trite script of claiming Russia is planning a false flag.
Flipping Ukraine is the highlight of her career, but losing Crimea, the real prize, was probably a lowest moment.
But she’s still there at the State Department. Proof that upward mobility for neocons requires failure and no amount of it harms their careers.
It is possible that she has set a new standard…Low…
She did unleash a new level of chaos, for sure.
The US is caught with it`s pants down and immediatly turns it on it`s head and say`s Russia is planning chemical / bio attacks .
Fairly standard…
If it were not so dangerous, it would be laughable…
If the Ukrainian Health Ministry ordered the destruction of all those pathogens back in February, why wasn’t it done? Who gave the stand-down order on that? I’ll bet that’s a very, very short list of people or agencies and a one-entry list of the nation they work for.
John Steinbeck traveled to Russia shortly after ww2 with a photographer friend. They went to see for themselves what was so bad about Russia that US newspapers were full of bad Russia enemy articles, every day. It’s a great work by John and gives insight into his creative self. Well worth reading.
One line is particularly salient. Upon observing a captured German soldier clearing rubble with a wheelbarrow and shovel, a Russian asked John Steinbeck, “What kind of people are these who plan and commit unmentionable atrocities against normal everyday people?
Now we know— Good Americans.
““Scientists being scientists, it wouldn’t surprise me if some of these
strain collections in some of these laboratories still have pathogen
strains that go all the way back to the origins of that program.”
You’d think he’d know, not guess… Scott Ritter has also pointed out that it’s likely some of this research violates various international agreements.
It reminds me that we will never know just how involved the US was when Sadam gassed the Kurds in Iraq as there were spray helicopters left over from Vietnam filmed hovering over Falluja during and after the attack.
God Bless the Pope.
God bless the entire Hebrew diaspora globally.
Bless those who seek Peace.
And Bless the Son of God!
Who like a lion will rise up from his couch and shred the serpent and his threats on the living Remnant who are the Elect and called, the Bride of Christ, the leadership of a new Temple who will teach and minister to the Ressurection of the just in Tabernacles, not a central Temple.
The new Temple is like the Body of Christ, is 100 % The Bride.
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Is this bio weapons story political dynamite, or am I wishfull thinking? Having the Madam of the 2014 coup on Ukraine tell US “Move Along” “Nothing to see Here” when the Madam of the 2014 coup on Ukraine tells US that a U.S. funded & run cluster of BioChemical labs in Ukraine and other former USSR republics
Ukraine re-acquring nukes and biological weapons are political dynamite, but for whatever reason the Russians aren’t playing up Ukraine’s plans nearly as much as they could be.
Its possible this is because those programs are Soviet in origin.
The leading Soviet nuclear research facility was the Ukraine Institute of Physics and Technology in Kharkov. Soviet biological weapons research also took place in Ukraine.
Especially in the case of biological weapons, the Pentagon would have been building upon Soviet work. Ukraine was never in control of this material during Soviet times.
Naturally, if Pentagon had been disposing of it, all that material should have been long destroyed. There would have been little legitimate reason to preserve anything.
The cyber warfare never happened as we were told by experts, one a lds in S. Diego who knew exactly what to expect-
But there was no prewar cyber bs was there? Nope.
Right Mitt?
Does anyone know what Mitt Romney was doing in a secret stop in Poland on his way to Palestine to see Bibi in 2012, his campaign year?
Cyber is a LDS asset. Right here my phone has been hacked and it is not Russia. My terminals intercepted by optical splitters and mirrored look-alikes while real time hacking and editing was ongoing.
My SMS not delivered.
Not China
Not Korea.
NOT Russia.
All 100% DOMESTIC TERRORISM.
and in the narrations of the reb scum is the hope trump will float to the top of our cesspool nation in a new western White House after DC and THE UN are destroyed.
Dreamy huh?
DOMINIONISTS with an errant end time survivalist eschatology! Their dream:
He who controls the spice (Mount Moriah) controls the universe.
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everything with the united states is a lie, the lies are so bad, no one, and I mean no one will trust Americans again, now that America is so untrustworthy, the dollar is a black hole and the petrodollars of American trust will go to zero and that’s how they will try to get rid of oil and natural gas from Russia, all of you people commenting should in any future comments push for a national polygraph law for these pieces of shit american law makers and president to take a polygraph anytime, anyway, anywhere. !!!