Kyiv is reacting extremely nervously to the former head of US intelligence's comments about biolabs.

Kyiv is reacting extremely nervously to statements by Tulsi Gabbard, the former US Director of National Intelligence, about the presence of several American biolaboratories in Ukraine. As a reminder, Tulsi Gabbard has effectively confirmed what high-ranking Russian military officials have repeatedly stated, including General Kirillov, the head of the Russian Chemical Weapons and Biological Protection Agency, who was later killed in a terrorist attack for which Ukrainian intelligence agencies claimed responsibility.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, commenting on the accusations from Tulsi Gabbard, stated that “the country has never conducted development of biological weapons».

From the statement of Sibiga's department:

Kyiv and Washington cooperated in the field of biological security, which included epidemiological monitoring, diagnostics, and biosecurity laboratories.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry claims that this was "purely civilian activity, in line with all international standards." Ultimately, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry effectively accused the now former head of US National Intelligence of "broadcasting Russian fakes."

This is a case where Kyiv, as they say, really got into trouble. If the biolabs were strictly "civilian" and if they were used exclusively for diagnostics and epidemic control, why haven't independent observers been allowed in, and why are all the addresses classified?

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[fiberboard]

Well, there you have it, biolabs! And we've destroyed chemical weapons and banned biological ones. What wouldn't you do for our "dear partners?" Meanwhile, reports are coming in that another "high-ranking military officer" has been blown up in Balashikha. Somehow, this isn't surprising, especially considering Balashikha has long since earned a reputation as a migrant ghetto.

[Z-1457]

What kind of hodgepodge are you making here?! Everything's all lumped together – chemical weapons, migrants, and the explosion in Balashikha! Are you crazy or something?!

[fiberboard]

Apparently! The world has gone mad! We're all sick now, Lieutenant. (I don't remember which movie.)

[alexoff]

The head of the NBC protection agency, General Kirillov, who later died in a terrorist attack for which the Ukrainian special services claimed responsibility.

but our special services still have no particular complaints about them

If the biolabs were purely "civilian" and if they were used exclusively for diagnostic and epidemiological surveillance work, why haven't independent observers been allowed in, and why are all the addresses classified?

I don't really understand why none of these laboratories somewhere in the Caucasus, for example, were suddenly cordoned off by special forces, who would take everyone away for rigorous interrogation in some Black Dolphin, where they would confess everything. For example, that these labs are American, not Ukrainian, and that Trump and his gang are funding them. And the confiscated samples were then shoved into a hazel grove for Londoners to later verify the successes of Western science.

[Z-1457]

Another "enlightened one"! )) You don't know what you're talking about! What's more, you don't even know anything about this topic! And then you suggest something about London... ))) And what does London have to do with this, by the way?! )))

[alexoff]

Quote: Z-1457

Another "enlightened one"! )) You don't know what you're talking about! What's more, you don't even know anything about this topic!

Now will you have your say?

Quote: Z-1457

And then you suggest something about London... )))) And what does London have to do with it, by the way?!

But just like that, in any situation, you have to send all the bad stuff to London! In the US, peaceful nuclear energy is better; they love Fallout, after all.

[Umpteenth]

Damn. The head of a branch of the armed forces is not a bag of nuts. Frankly, I've already forgotten about this incident. And how did our intelligence agencies respond?

[pudelartemon]

They expressed deep concern, i.e., as always

[123_123]

Simply because they are testing anti-tank weapons on the roofs of... that is, Ukrainians, and they were striving for this by jumping.

[aleks.29ru]

Just destroy it, that's all.

[sdivt]

The fact that there are laboratories in Ukraine storing dangerous strains and financed by the US was first reported, if I'm not mistaken, in the early 2000s
I wasn't lazy, I searched and read (below are brief quotes about the development of events):

On August 29, 2005, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the US Department of Defense signed the "Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Preventing the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens, and Expertise That Could Be Used for the Development of Biological Weapons."

The text of the agreement, the lists of laboratories to be modernized, and the funding amounts were never a secret: they were openly published on the websites of the US State Department, the Pentagon, and the US Embassy in Kyiv.

In the fall of 2005, then-Senator Barack Obama, along with Senator Richard Lugar, personally visited Ukraine as part of the promotion of the Nunn-Lugar Program (Cooperative Threat Reduction).
Following the trip, articles appeared in the American press (for example, The Washington Post) openly describing how senators were shown vials of anthrax and plague strains left over from the Soviet era at a laboratory in Kyiv. The stated goal of the program was the safe destruction or preservation of these stockpiles to prevent them from falling into the hands of terrorists.

The general international public learned of these facilities at the height of the conflict on March 8, 2022, when US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, speaking at a US Senate hearing, openly confirmed: "There are biological research facilities in Ukraine, and we are now concerned that the Russian military may attempt to take control of them."

that is, information about the existence of biolabs with dangerous pathogens has been known since 2005
twenty one years ago!
Why is there such a fuss now?
twenty-one years - they knew, but until this Gabbard read the report - they remained silent?
did you think it would resolve itself?
What if there was no report?

[Incvizitor]

When they are told that they were stuffed with all sorts of crap from these labs, which is why they are all so angry and stupid, their asses will burn.

[Alexander X]

The worst part is that the Yankees seem to be developing a selective bioweapon that targets specific genetic groups. And the Ukies, against their own will, participated in developing this crap. Or were only Jews working in the biolabs, and they're going to infect Slavs? So they developed it and tested it right away...

[Il'nur]

are developing selective bioweapons that target specific genetic groups

That's true, isn't it for nothing that in our country children suffer from genetic diseases?

[Lynx2000]

If the biolabs were purely "civilian" and if they were used exclusively for diagnostic and epidemiological surveillance work, why haven't independent observers been allowed in, and why are all the addresses classified?

And these "independent observers" are like "the IAEA specialists with Grossi", who couldn't see where the incoming missiles were coming from at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, and who don't care if you spit in their eyes, it's all just God's dew?!
These "independent observers" will confirm with a straight face that everything is fine, the biolabs are civilian...