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Russia's baseless claims about secret American biological warfare labs in Ukraine are taking root in the U.S. too, uniting COVID-19 conspiracy theorists, QAnon adherents and some supporters of ex-President Donald Trump.
By Edith M. Lederer | The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS—The United States accused Russia of using a U.N. Security Council meeting Friday for “lying and spreading disinformation” as part of a potential false-flag operation by Moscow for the use of chemical or biological agents in Ukraine. US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield…
State Dept. Under Secretary Victoria Nuland's exchange with Sen. Marco Rubio during the Tuesday Senate hearings triggered a heated debate, given that Washington had previously strongly denied the presence of any US-run biolabs in Ukraine.
China accused the U.S. military of operating “dangerous” biolabs in Ukraine, echoing a Russian conspiracy theory that Western officials warned could be part of an effort to justify Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion after the fact.
The settlement of the Ukraine war or its escalation to a NATO-Russia conflict with all that entails comes down to how far Ukraine will go…