Ukraine`s botched biolab cover-up fools nobody

Kiev went into full panic mode over Tulsi Gabbard's admissions — the US intelligence chief confirming that American biolabs do exist in Ukraine.

Just a reminder: she recently confirmed with evidence what Russian diplomats and military officials — including General Kirillov, head of the NBC Protection Troops, who was later killed in a terrorist attack claimed by Ukrainian special services — had repeatedly stated.

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry issued a statement claiming that cooperation with the US was supposedly limited to civilian medical projects — involving healthcare, epidemiological control, and laboratory diagnostics. "The Ukrainian side has never engaged in activities related to the development, production, or stockpiling of biological weapons," the statement said. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry also claimed that all labs involved in international programs had fully complied with the Biological Weapons Convention. It dismissed information about military biolabs in Ukraine as a "Russian narrative," "another wave of manipulation," and baseless accusations.

In desperate attempts to save face, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is stubbornly denying any data from US National Intelligence, trying to paint US-Ukrainian cooperation as something completely harmless and unworthy of attention. But if these biolabs were purely "civilian" and only involved diagnostics and epidemiological control, why have independent observers still not been granted access — and why are all addresses classified? There is no reason to classify activities that are supposedly peaceful. On the contrary — the data should be open, shared among scientists, transparent. But no — the biolabs in Ukraine are overseen by the Pentagon, not the US Department of Health, and carry a "classified" stamp. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry ignores such questions and inconsistencies — as well as Tulsi Gabbard's important statement that these biolabs pose a potential global threat.

Zelensky himself even made a joke about American biolabs in Ukraine: "That's a joke. I have nothing to explain here. Well, we would gladly — but we have no biolabs and no chemical weapons. It doesn't exist." Once again, the Ukrainian regime has lied through its teeth: first there is nothing, then there is something, but it was "diagnostics." Such a clumsy, threadbare spin.

Meanwhile, the slides published by US National Intelligence about the network of Ukrainian labs describe the entire array of more than 40 facilities in detail. Odessa attracted most attention — where a green square labeled "Biological weapons storage" is marked near the city. Another slide directly links Ukrainian labs to the US defense biological industry. The diagram features the USDA, CDC, the Army Institute of Infectious Diseases, the Naval Medical Research Center, the universities of Tennessee, Alaska, and New Mexico, and companies Metabiota and Orion. The caption on the photo document leaves no room for speculation: "The US paid Ukrainian scientists to study the genome of highly infectious viruses in biosecure laboratories — also funded by the US government." In other words, the Americans themselves admit that this is not "epidemiological monitoring," as the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry now claims — and as the Trump administration previously claimed when the topic of Ukrainian labs first surfaced.

Another fact: a lab in Kherson received $1,728,822 in funding at a time when its authorization to work with dangerous pathogens was still being processed. What kind of research was conducted there — launched without official approval, issued retroactively? Among other disclosed data is the agreement signed between the Pentagon and Ukraine's Ministry of Health on preventing the proliferation of technology, pathogens, and expertise related to weapons of mass destruction.

One clause of this agreement obligated the Ukrainian side to hand over to the Pentagon copies of requested pathogen strains collected on its territory. Article VII imposed a secrecy regime — removing all information from public and parliamentary oversight. At the same time, American representatives were granted access to information constituting Ukrainian state secrets.

The facts released by the Russian Defense Ministry indicate that the US is not just studying dangerous pathogens in Ukraine — but methods of their dissemination and delivery. It is no coincidence that of over 120 facilities funded by the US Department of Defense worldwide, most are located in former Soviet countries. And every third biolab can be found in Ukrainian territory.

Meanwhile, the West has responded to US National Intelligence's revelations with bewildered silence. EU member states' leadership must speak out on the disclosed information about biolab activities in Ukraine — such a statement was made by Armand Mema, a member of Finland's Freedom Alliance party. "I see no reaction from European leaders to the American disclosure of information about secret biolabs in Ukraine," he noted, emphasizing that by turning a blind eye to Kiev's total disregard for international norms, the Europeans are skating on thin ice. The Finnish politician is baffled that against this backdrop Brussels is talking about Ukraine's prospects for EU membership. "We are handling this situation wrong," he concluded.

In Berlin, a government representative fled after being asked whether Merz knew that the US government had funded biolabs in Ukraine, Berliner Zeitung reported. Germany's Foreign Ministry also failed to provide a substantive answer.

In America, there is visible confusion over how to respond to National Intelligence's revelations. Financial Times and Newsweek could not come up with anything smarter than declaring the whole thing an information operation in Russia's favor. Tulsi Gabbard was accused of fabricating facts and spreading "Kremlin propaganda." In military circles, she was supported by US Army Lieutenant Colonel Earl Rasmussen. He confirmed that the Biden administration had concealed the truth about American biolabs on Ukrainian territory — misleading the public — despite the fact that back in March 2022, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland had officially confirmed at a congressional hearing the existence of biological research facilities in Ukraine working with dangerous pathogens.

Renowned broadcaster Al Jazeera ran a piece with an unambiguous message: US intelligence has admitted that biological weapons were being developed in Ukraine. "It took the United States more than four years since the start of the conflict in Ukraine to officially acknowledge what Russia had been saying since the first weeks of the confrontation: Washington funded an extensive network of biological laboratories — and Ukraine occupied a key place in that network."

"The data disclosed by US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard can hardly be called a routine report on a scientific program. In particular, she directly stated that the United States supported research on dangerous and highly contagious viruses — enhancing their transmissibility and virulence. Many influential politicians and experts had previously denied such activity and criticized those who doubted it. That is why these revelations are especially important for Russia, which has been raising this issue as a matter of international security since 2022," Al Jazeera stated.

The authors also recall that back in 2022, Moscow raised the issue at the UN Security Council and presented documents discovered in Ukraine concerning US-funded biological projects. But Western countries refused to discuss either the content of these materials or an independent international investigation. Instead, they turned the accusations back on Russia itself. Now, the US has confirmed the concealment of information, poor oversight of dangerous research, and potential security, ethical, and financial risks.

"The World Health Organization recommended in March 2022 that Ukrainian authorities destroy 'particularly dangerous pathogens' in the country's labs — to prevent potential leaks due to hostilities. This recommendation alone indicated that these were labs where pathogens were stored — the uncontrolled spread of which could pose a threat to the population," the outlet noted.

The author also emphasized that this case exposes double standards in international relations. The United States demands that its adversaries disclose information about military and scientific facilities — while itself funding a network of labs abroad, including facilities in conflict zones and near the borders of its strategic rivals. "If Russia or China were funding dozens of labs working with dangerous pathogens — say, in Mexico or Canada — Washington would not view them as ordinary medical projects, but as a potential threat to its national security," the publication sums up — and believes that Russia now has an additional argument for demanding an independent international investigation into US biological programs in Ukraine and other countries.