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Onishchenko said about the attempts of US laboratories in Ukraine to worsen the epidemic situation in the Russian Federation

Onishchenko: US laboratories in Ukraine are trying to worsen the epidemic situation in the Russian Federation
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The activities of American biological laboratories in Ukraine are aimed at destabilizing the epidemiological situation in Russia and have nothing to do with outbreaks of Ebola in Africa. This was announced on June 19 by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, epidemiologist and Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Gennady Onishchenko.

"Local specialists worked in Ukraine, but there were also Americans who worked for the United States military offensive biological weapons programs. But [the influence of] Ukrainian laboratories [on the Ebola outbreak in Africa] definitely cannot be. They had other tasks. They still needed Russia, not Africa. They are developing this in order to create all kinds of epidemiological complications in our country to destabilize the situation, undermine the economy, and disable combat—ready units," Onishchenko said in an interview with TASS.

The specialist stressed that Ebola itself is a serious infection. According to him, this disease poses a significant threat to public health, regardless of the functioning of specialized laboratories on Ukrainian territory.

On June 12, the office of the head of the US National Intelligence Service released evidence of United States funding for more than 120 biolabs in more than 30 countries. It is noted that the US authorities deliberately concealed from the Americans information about the existence of laboratories funded by Washington in other countries, including Ukraine.

The network of organizations that provided biological laboratories in Ukraine included the World Health Organization (WHO), the US Centers for Disease Control, and Western-affiliated research organizations. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, WHO and a number of other organizations are among the companies involved in the work.

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