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On March 10, the Russian state news agency Sputnik published an article claiming the U.S. had developed biological weapons in Ukraine that could target specific ethnic groups.The article quoted Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian military’s Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Protection Troops, as stating:"The available documents confirm numerous cases of the transfer of biological samples of Ukrainian citizens abroad. With a high degree of probability, we can say that one of the tasks of the United States and its allies is the creation of bioagents that can selectively affect various ethnic groups of the population." That same day, @ASBMilitary, a now-suspended Twitter account that had over 200,000 followers and a reputation for posting pro-Kremlin content about the war, tweeted the same claim, stating that the intent must be to target Slavic DNA." A tweet about the bio-weapon claim from a now-suspended Twitter account.Both claims are false.Russian claims about biological weapons laboratories and research in Ukraine have been repeatedly debunked. Polygraph.info has dealt with this topic on many occasions
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