The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, strongly denied the allegation, accusing Russia of spreading "disinformation" to "fabricate allegations of chemical or biological weapons to justify its own violent attacks against the Ukrainian people."
Russia's Nevanzya claimed the Ukrainian labs are enhancing lethal pathogens such as the plague, anthrax, cholera and tularemia using synthetic biology and sending them to Russia through migratory birds, bats and insects.
"Ukraine agreed to make their country into a biological lab and their citizens as Guinea pigs," Nebenzya charged.
Thomas-Greenfield stated emphatically that Ukraine "does not have a biological weapons program."
"There are no Ukrainian biological weapons laboratories by the United States ... not near Russia's border or anywhere," she said.
On Tuesday, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland was asked during a Senate hearing whether or not Ukraine had chemical or biological weapons.
She gave a guarded answer in which she neither denied or confirmed it.
"Ukraine," Nuland began, speaking slowly and deliberately, "has biological research facilities which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of."
Nuland said "we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach."
Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA technology platform that later was used in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, weighed in on the biolab issue on his Substack page, noting that in addition to being a physician, vaccinologist, virologist and molecular biologist, he has worked in biodefense and medical countermeasure development for decades.
His experience includes working on infectious disease outbreaks with scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Institute and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
Malone quoted an unnamed colleague familiar with the Ukrainian bio-labs who said they "fulfill a vital mission in global surveillance of emerging infectious diseases."
Ukraine handling 'especially dangerous pathogens'
On Wednesday, the National Pulse reported it recovered a deleted web article showing Barack Obama helped secure an agreement when he was a U.S. senator that led to the construction of biolabs in Ukraine handling "especially dangerous pathogens." A level-3 bio-safety lab opened in the Ukrainian city of Odessa in 2010.
A report one year later by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories said the Odessa laboratory "is responsible for the identification of especially dangerous biological pathogens."
Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Wednesday repeated Moscow's claim that the United States is operating "biowarfare labs" in Ukraine.
Zakharova said Russia had evidence the Ukrainian health ministry ordered the destruction of samples of plague, cholera, anthrax and other pathogens before the Russian invasion began Feb. 24. She described it as "an emergency attempt to erase evidence of military biological programs" financed by the Pentagon.
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