Biological and chemical: the worrying ballet of weapons of mass destruction begins
The World Health Organization has advised Ukraine to destroy "high-risk pathogens" in the country's public health laboratories in order to prevent "any spills" that could infect the population during the Russian invasion, Reuters reports .
"As part of this work, WHO has strongly recommended the Ministry of Health in Ukraine and other responsible bodies to destroy high-threat pathogens to prevent potential spills," the UN agency said.
The communication comes after a back-and-forth about "dangerous" biological laboratories in the country – with Russia, and then China, accusing the US military of involvement in Ukrainian biolabs.
The United States denied the allegations, releasing (among other things) a statement Thursday that "The United States does not have chemical or biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine," adding that America "does not develop or own chemical and biological weapons. nowhere".
FACT: The United States does not have chemical and biological weapons labs in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/cB9ZrH8vCo
– Department of State (@StateDept) March 10, 2022
US Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland acknowledged on Tuesday that Ukraine “has biological research facilities, of which, in fact, we are now quite concerned that Russian troops, Russian forces might try to gain control. So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces if they get close. " Nuland's response made it clear that whatever is inside Ukrainian biolabs is a serious concern, however it should be noted that there is no public evidence of biological weapons, nor did the WHO statement refer to biological warfare, which is a separate issue from whether the laboratories contained or contained dangerous pathogens that could be used in a biological weapon.
In the meantime, however, the US has relaunched with the danger of the use of chemical weapons by the Russians. According to the White House, reported by the BBC, Russia is creating the basis for the use of chemical weapons, if only at the level of "False Flag", as if multiple missile systems were not enough at the level of destruction. Chemical attacks would be the basis for subsequent, further attacks by passing the weapons as Ukrainian or American weapons.
Do you know that there is truly worrying about all of this? That these exchanges of accusations will be nothing more than the basis for further escalation.
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