“Contacted by #German colleagues from Correctiv, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (Ecdc) he denied the news released by Braddock,
“Contattato dai colleghi #tedeschi di Correctiv, il Centro europeo per la prevenzione e il controllo delle malattie (Ecdc) ha smentito la notizia diffusa da Braddock,
piegando che non esistono prove che i casi attuali di vaiolo delle #scimmie siano da collegare a un #virus proveniente da un #laboratorio in #Ucraina.”
#Victory#Day, as a national holiday and non-working day, was introduced in the #USSR in May #1945. However, in December 1947, it ceased to be a national holiday. Until 1965, there were no special events conducted on 9 May.
‘First, the alleged document has been published for the first time on June 14, 2022 by Izvestia, a historic #Russian newspaper become today #propaganda organ of the #Kremlin.
Izvestia presented the contents as a "secret document of the Ministry of Defense of #Ukraine" in which #Ukrainian President #Volodymyr#Zelensky allegedly ordered "the destruction [of the files]
‘As they highlighted the #US colleagues of #PolitiFact, already in March 2022 the #Pentagon had communicated more or less the same things,
adding that about 200 million dollars had been invested in #Ukraine in supporting "46 #laboratories, health facilities and diagnostic sites", improving the country's "#biological#safety".’
“First, #Ukraine it is not currently a member country of #NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an international organization for defense cooperation) and on its territory they are not here therefore NATO #military#bases.
Furthermore, there are no independent sources able to confirm the existence of a base in the basement of the #Azovstal steel plant.”
‘Reuters also, quoting #UN officials, writes that #WHO, in its work with #Ukraine, "is not aware of any activity in the country that would violate international treaties 'including #chemical or #biological#weapons'".
Therefore, there is no evidence that the health #laboratories referred to by #WHO in its note to the #Ukrainian government are used to produce #biological#weapons, as erroneously claimed in the post under analysis.
‘The existence of #US-run "#biomilitary#laboratories" has been officially denied in May 2020 by the security services of #Ukraine, which had asked politicians "not to spread false information about the alleged existence of foreign #military#biological#laboratories in Ukraine".
A item of the non-profit news organization Coda Story dating back to 2018 reconstructed the origins of this #disinformation content, attributing it to #Russian#propaganda.’