U.S. dismisses Russian claims of biowarfare labs in Ukraine | Reuters
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Via: jbb • 3 years ago • 13 commentsBy: Gareth Jones, Angus MacSwan and Howard Goller (Reuters)
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Reuters3 minute read Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday denied renewed Russian accusations that Washington was operating biowarfare labs in Ukraine, calling the claims "laughable" and suggesting Moscow may be laying the groundwork to use a chemical or biological weapon. Late on Tuesday, Russia repeated its accusation of several years that the United States is working with Ukrainian laboratories to develop biological weapons. Such assertions in Russian media increased in the run-up to Moscow's military move into Ukraine and were made as recently as Wednesday by foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. "The Russian accusations are absurd, they are laughable and you know, in the words of my Irish Catholic grandfather, a bunch of malarkey. There's nothing to it. It's classic Russian propaganda," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday. In a statement, also released on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said Russia "is inventing false pretexts in an attempt to justify its own horrific actions in Ukraine." White House press secretary Jen Psaki, citing what she called Russia's "false claims," wrote on Twitter: "It's Russia that has a long and well-documented track record of using chemical weapons, including in attempted assassinations and poisoning of Putin's political enemies like Alexey Navalny." There was no immediate response …
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Russian trolls are still hawking Putin's disinformation.
Morning jbb...they don't have much choice when things are not going how Putin thought...getting bogged down in a drawn out Guerilla warfare was not on Putin's agenda..
The gulags will be over flowing in no time with failed military leaders who will simply disappear...if they haven't already been shot.
Just sent more money over to the Ukraine army and with luck there is a bullet with Putin's name on it..we live in hope..
To Russia with love..
I appreciate your plain talk. It is rarer than rare...
And they are making it very obvious to anyone looking, who those Russian trolls are.
Russia is setting up a false flag operation by accusing the US of operating bioweapons lab in Ukraine. They have their nerve...
Can you believe the fishy propaganda being spread?
A bunch of abnermal Knuckle heads.
China is helping Russia spread inflammatory and unsubstantiated claims that the U.S. is financing biological weapons labs in Ukraine. The U.S. has refuted Moscow’s conspiracy theory which some fear could lay the groundwork for a “false-flag” operation.
Yes, and Russia's US patsies spread it [deleted]
This Russian disinformation campaign about US financed bio-labs in Ukraine is set up to be used as domestic cover for Putin at home to excuse Russia using outlawed biological weapons against Ukraine while blaming the USA. Really despicable stuff...
All while calling themselves "patriots".
And possibly even some Russian paid agents. After all, with the internet and VPN services, there is no way to tell where anyone is posting from.
there's an echo in here....