They continue circulate despite US and others dismissing the claims and Russia offering no proof. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - The United States secretly manufactured biological weapons in Ukraine. It trained birds to carry viruses into Russia. It created Covid-19. It operated laboratories in Nigeria that engineered this year'sOf the many falsehoods that the Kremlin has spread since the war in Ukraine began more than six months ago, some of the most outlandish and yet enduring have been those accusing the US of operating clandestine biological research programmes to wreak havoc around the globe.
She is leading a parliamentary committee that was formed to"investigate" American support for biological research laboratories in Ukraine and elsewhere. More broadly, though, the flurry of accusations has sought to discredit the US and its allies - Ukraine's most powerful supporters and, increasingly, theEven when unsupported by fact, the accusations have played into preexisting attitudes toward American dominance in foreign affairs. The consequence has been to sow division and doubt - not necessarily to build support for Russia's invasion but to deflect some of the blame to the US and the Nprth Atlantic Treaty Organisation .
"And it will significantly undermine global biosafety and biosecurity efforts, so it does have consequences."General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian army's radiological, chemical and biological defence force, insinuated that the US had started the latest outbreak because it supported four research laboratories in Nigeria where the epidemic began to spread.
Russia's accusations have appeared in news reports in many countries, especially in Africa and the Middle East, regions that have become diplomatic battlegrounds between the United States, Russia and China.
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