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Amid a Ukrainian military counteroffensive that has seen Kyiv retake key territory and put Moscow on its backfoot, Russia continues to push a debunked bioweapons conspiracy targeting the United States.A Ukrainian soldier helps a wounded comrade on the road in liberated territory in the Kharkiv region on September 12, 2022. (Kostiantyn Liberov/AP)Late last month, state parties to the international Biological Weapons Convention began a formal consultative meeting following a request from Russia in June. The basis: Russia claims the United States is secretly developing bioweapons in Ukraine.While that accusation has been repeatedly debunked, on September 12, Putin confidante and Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, Nikolay Patrushev, repeated the allegation that dozens of U.S. biolabs in Ukraine endanger Russia.The network of biolaboratories created by the U.S. around our country also poses a threat to the safety of the population. There were more than 30 of them in Ukraine alone
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