LifeSite finally runs the Ukraine biolab story now that the entire thing has spilled out onto the Senate floor

These truths have been out at least since February 26th HERE. But hey, welcome to the party! -NVP


Questions remain about the full extent of US involvement in setting up high-level bio-security laboratories in Ukraine, as the media narrative concerning the labs has changed in a matter of days.

Featured ImageUnder Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland under scrutiny at a March 8 Senate hearing


By Michael Haynes

Wed Mar 9, 2022 – 10:51 am EST

(LifeSiteNews) — Unearthed emails show that the U.S. assisted with setting up biosecurity laboratories in Ukraine, as a high-ranking U.S. official acknowledges that the U.S. does have such laboratories in Ukraine, despite former denials.

The National Pulse reported March 8 it had unearthed a since-deleted 2010 article showing that then-Sen. Barack Obama had been involved in setting up a laboratory since 2005 — the Interim Central Reference Laboratory in Odessa.

“The level-3 bio-safety lab, which is the first built under the expanded authority of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, will be used to study anthrax, tularemia and Q fever as well as other dangerous pathogens,” read the article.

As noted by The National Pulse, the Odessa-based bio-lab was referenced in a 2011 report (from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories), explaining how the laboratory “is responsible for the identification of especially dangerous biological pathogens.”

Credit: The National Pulse

The lab was “reconstructed and technically updated up to the BSL-3 level through a cooperative agreement between the United States Department of Defense and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine,” noted the Committee’s report. “The collaboration focuses on preventing the spread of technologies, pathogens, and knowledge that can be used in the development of biological weapons.”

Another document outlines the pathogens studied in the bio-lab, including Ebola, Marburg virus, as well as “viruses of pathogencity group II by using virology, molecular, serologica and express methods.” 

The Odessa lab was one of only 2 in the country authorized to work with microorganisms of the first (most dangerous) pathogenic group, while 402 laboratories could work with the second pathogenic group.

Bio-labs under intense scrutiny since Russian invasion

The presence of such U.S.-assisted bio-labs in Ukraine has been cause of debate since Russia’s invasion. A March 2 fact check article strongly denied the existence of any U.S. owned bio-weapons labs in Ukraine, but did not deny a U.S. collaboration with Ukraine in running and funding “public health, animal health, and food safety labs.” 

Additional fact check articles stated that “there are no US-run biolabs in Ukraine,” while not rejecting wider U.S. collaboration with Ukraine in such laboratories.

However, at a Senate hearing March 8, Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland confirmed the existence of bio-labs in the country, appearing uncomfortable while answering if Ukraine “has biological or chemical weapons.”

“Ukraine has biological research facilities which in fact we are now quite concerned Russian troops may be seeking to gain control of,” Nuland said. “So 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.”


number of commentators have questioned why Nuland would be “so concerned Russia would seize such a benign ‘biological research facility,’” suggesting that her testimony in the Senate was not an honest appraisal of the U.S. involvement in the laboratories, or the content of the labs themselves.


U.S. officials, including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) who questioned Nuland, have described any such speculation about the labs as being part of “Russian propaganda.” 

But in response, Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed March 8 that “the Kiev regime was found to have been concealing traces of a military biological programme implemented with funding from the United States Department of Defence.”

She said that “documentation” had been discovered ordering the “urgent eradication of highly hazardous pathogens of plague, anthrax, rabbit-fever, cholera and other lethal diseases.”

Zakharova also claimed that “components of biological weapons were being developed in Ukrainian laboratories,” and accused the U.S. and Ukraine of violating Article I of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, which forbids the development, production, or retention of “biological weapons.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/document-confirm-us-link-to-ukraine-bio-labs-as-confusion-reigns-over-pathogens-studied/

6 thoughts on “LifeSite finally runs the Ukraine biolab story now that the entire thing has spilled out onto the Senate floor”

      1. Thank you! (I tried doing that on a foreign video recently and it just gave me captions in the foreign language…figure this would be the same)

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