Expert: Ukraine has network of classified US-funded labs
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An expert claims Ukraine hosts a network of classified labs modernized by the US DTRA, which allegedly studied and artificially boosted antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis pathogens.
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An expert, Igor Nikulin, claims that Ukraine hosts a network of classified laboratories modernized by the US Department of War's DTRA. He states that documents obtained by Russian military suggest local specialists studied and artificially boosted tuberculosis pathogens with high antibiotic resistance.
MOSCOW, May 22. /TASS/. A network of classified labs, modernized under the program of the US Department of War, has been created on the territory of Ukraine, military expert and former member of the UN Commission on Biological and Chemical Weapons, Igor Nikulin, has said in an opinion piece for TASS.
"A network of classified laboratories, modernized under the program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) of the US Department of War. Donbass was in the immediate vicinity of their zone of potential influence," the expert said.
He added that judging by documents, obtained by the Russian military from a number of biological labs on the liberated territories "a conclusion can be drawn that local specialists gathered, studied and artificially boosted tuberculosis pathogens with high resistance to antibiotics."
Open Questions
- What specific documents were obtained by the Russian military?
- What is the exact nature and purpose of these laboratories?
- What is the US government's response to these claims?
- What is the current status of these laboratories?
