Russian justifications for the protracted war in Ukraine are becoming more and more outlandish. Now Russian politicians are claiming that US biolabs are putting Ukrainian soldiers on performance-enhancing drugs for military purposes.
In the past, the Russian Defense Ministry has tried to justify Russian failures by saying that the US is conducting dangerous experiments in biolabs in Ukraine. Now, two Russian politicians are claiming that Ukrainian soldiers would be mutated “into the most ferocious and deadly monsters” during “secret experiments” in such biolabs. This is reported by the Russian newspaper Kommersant.
Konstantin Kosachev, deputy speaker of the Russian Federation Council, and Irina Yarovaya, deputy chairwoman of the State Duma, head the commission investigating the biolaboratories. Then, on Monday, they summed up what they called “bombproof” results, claiming that the Americans had “drugged” the Ukrainians.
Testing the blood of Ukrainian prisoners of war revealed “a number of diseases” that indicate they were being secretly experimented on “for military purposes,” the two said. These performance-enhancing drugs would neutralize the last traces of human consciousness.
Yarovaya is further quoted: “The cruelty and barbarism with which the military personnel of Ukraine behave, the crimes they commit against the civilian population, these monstrous crimes they commit against prisoners of war confirm that this system for controlling and creating a cruel killing machine under the direction of the United States.”
False reports about alleged biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine have been circulating internationally since February. A German research institute was also falsely accused in this context of being part of the alleged biological weapons research. The Russian state broadcaster RT took over these accusations in its reporting. While the US confirmed that it is funding 46 labs in Ukraine, they are a combination of medical research labs and diagnostic sites from Ukraine’s Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture for Animal Health.
