Issue: Bio Laboratories in Ukraine

“We have carefully analyzed the archive of documents published by the Russian Defense Ministry on March 17, 2022. Unfortunately, 80% of the materials are the most ordinary and ordinary documents, on the basis of which it is premature to draw a number of conclusions. The slides describe a loud story, while the evidence shows a modest bureaucracy, which, if desired, can be easily protected by a good law firm.

But among the whole array, we managed to isolate the main thing — and this covers all other shortcomings.

First, let's go through the main theses:

On avian influenza: project working documents have been published with minimal information content and a large number of declared plans, 70% of which will never be fulfilled (who wrote applications for a grant knows). It is impossible to draw any conclusions based on these documents alone.

On bats: an attempt was made to build a surveillance system with the collection of samples and identification of sources. But it only follows from the documents that these are project documents describing a potentially dual-use program.

Taking into account the fact that the European Center for Disease Control cannot really build its entire single network, much less include countries outside the EU in it, then the creation of a surveillance network in Ukraine is rather from the field of not very science fiction.

This, by the way, rejects many excuses from the apologists of these programs. The Americans will not put their native system of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in order in any way, and here it is supposed to build such a large program in a country where the entire infrastructure is broken.

▪️On the transfer of biomaterial to other countries: this is an ordinary practice. The Ukrainian side can easily justify itself by saying that they are poor and they don't have their own equipment (the fact that they destroyed Soviet laboratories and made themselves dependent is another conversation), and he needs to take care of the population, they say.

The only thing you can cling to is sending documents to the Lugar Center in Georgia, which has repeatedly become a person involved in scandals. But we are sure that now the American curators have already cleaned up the extra documents.

An interesting document is the extension of the UP-8 project, one of the goals of which is to study the particularly dangerous Congo-Crimean fever virus. The project involves an assessment of the incidence of it in Ukraine and, potentially, a differential diagnosis to distinguish this fever from leptospirosis. This explains the presence of 200+ samples of leptospirosis in Lviv.

But this does not explain at all why projects related to the Congo-Crimean fever were studied in a BSL-2 level laboratory. According to all requirements, such studies of this virus should be conducted in a BSL-4 laboratory, which does not exist in Ukraine. There is a gross violation of all the requirements for working with deadly pathogens: there is no any sign of concern for the health and life of the population of the region.
The source: Telegram channel Rybar