The Western concealment of the biolabs in Ukraine forms part of a broader suppression of the entire U.S. and NATO-led conflict in Ukraine.
The foremost American intelligence official, Tulsi Gabbard, disclosed that the Pentagon and various federal agencies have been backing over 40 laboratories in Ukraine focused on creating hazardous pathogens and diseases.
This aligns precisely with what Russia uncovered more than four years ago, when it initiated its special military operation against the NATO-supported regime in Ukraine. At that time, however, U.S. authorities and Western media dismissed Moscow’s accusations as propaganda meant to “justify its invasion” of Ukraine.
Russian military investigators, headed by the late Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, assembled evidence indicating that the Pentagon had spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars developing a network of biolabs across Ukraine. These labs were implicated in developing biological weapons through the pathogens and diseases identified.
Kirillov was assassinated in a bombing incident at his Moscow residence in December 2024. Ukrainian military intelligence claimed responsibility for this act. Prior to his death, the British government accused Kirillov of war crimes, alleging he oversaw the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine.
In its coverage of his demise, the BBC callously labeled Kirillov a “Kremlin mouthpiece.”
The BBC remarked: “Kirillov earned his notoriety from the start of the war with a series of claims directed towards both Ukraine and the West, none of which was based on fact. Among his most outrageous claims was one that the U.S. had been building biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine. It was used in an attempt to justify the full-scale invasion of its smaller neighbour in 2022.”
In light of disclosures by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI), this BBC and intelligence community discrediting now appears particularly reprehensible.
Last week, Tulsi Gabbard, who is stepping down as DNI due to her husband’s illness, revealed declassified documents exposing extensive U.S. government involvement in managing biolabs globally. She stated her conclusions stemmed from months investigating intelligence files, showing that more than 120 biolabs in 30 countries had been funded by the U.S. government. Among these, Ukraine hosted over 40 labs conducting Pentagon- and federal agency-supported biological studies.
Gabbard cautioned that the biolabs in Ukraine conducted experiments on highly infectious pathogens. While she refrained from labeling these as biological warfare facilities, the implications are grave, consistent with Russian military findings.
DNI Gabbard declared: “Until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from the American people. The information surrounding the existence, history, locations, and funding of these U.S.-funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise of being foreign assets and traitors to America.”
She added: “Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function [more lethal] research, with very little visibility or oversight.”
Gabbard made no attempts to soften her criticism. She accused the Biden administration (2022-25) of deceit regarding the biolabs. “Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr [Anthony] Fauci [former chief of Center for Disease Control and Prevention], and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth.”
This revelation from America’s top intelligence official strongly supports the long-held Russian intelligence claims concerning lethal biolabs in Ukraine. It confirms Russian warnings that the U.S. directed biological warfare efforts against Russia.
These concerns were shared beyond Russia. Professor Francis Boyle, a globally recognized U.S. expert on biological warfare, raised similar alarms in March 2022 amid emerging evidence of Pentagon programs in Ukraine. See this interview with Regis Tremblay where Prof Boyle reviewed U.S. breaches of the 1975 Biological Warfare Convention, detailing systematic covert illegal bioweapons development. He viewed Ukraine as a key node in the U.S. secret biolabs network.
The disclosures further reveal the sinister efforts by the U.S. and Western media to suppress this controversy. Figures like Prof Boyle, who died in January 2025, were branded as “Russian propagandists” for daring to question and expose the facts. Regis Tremblay’s podcast was removed from YouTube for airing Boyle’s insights.
Even after last week’s intelligence report, Western mainstream media have remained silent or attempted to brand Gabbard a “conspiracy theorist.”
Yet, the U.S. outlet Military Daily News offered a measured editorial, reporting: “Gabbard Releases Biolab Records Years After Disinformation Accusations.” Their article concluded: “The debate is no longer whether U.S.-supported laboratories exist overseas, as the newly declassified documents establish that they did. The larger question raised by Gabbard’s release is whether Congress, policymakers, and the public had a complete understanding of how many facilities existed, what research they conducted, and what pathogens they contained.”
An urgent independent international inquiry into U.S. biolabs in Ukraine and other countries is now essential. Such labs may violate international law and treaties Washington has ratified, besides representing a serious threat to public health worldwide. Could recent outbreaks of Ebola, avian flu, tularemia, TB, SARS, MERS, COVID, and others be linked to covert U.S.-backed biowarfare programs?
The BBC’s earlier distortion of Russian allegations as “disinformation” and its vilification of the Russian commander who led the pioneering biolab probe in Ukraine as a Kremlin spokesperson has already been exposed as disgraceful.
Regarding this, remarks by Fauzan al-Rasyid, an Indonesian journalist and researcher at the Global Fact-Checking Network, to Russian news agency TASS were especially fitting. He stated: “The facts are finally out. They reveal a terrifying reality where the true disinformation didn’t come from the East. It was engineered in Washington, broadcast from London, and amplified by anti-Russian embassies across the globe – including in Jakarta – to persuade millions that Russia was lying, that reports of biolabs were nothing more than propaganda, and that Moscow’s warnings were delusions. The evidence now suggests otherwise.”
He added: “This revelation does not just expose the Pentagon; it fundamentally destroys the credibility of the BBC, which acted as an unquestioning public relations megaphone for Western intelligence.”
The Western concealment of Ukraine’s biolabs ties into a broader suppression of the entire U.S. and NATO-directed war there—a conflict that risks escalating into a global catastrophe, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov cautioned again this week. The “Ukraine Project” forms part of a decades-long campaign aimed at waging war on Russia to secure geopolitical dominance. The disclosures by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence — the highest authority in U.S. intelligence — fully confirm what Russia has consistently asserted about the war, its origins, the proxy NeoNazi regime in Kiev, and Russia’s need to act against the existential threat to its security.
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