MELITOPOL, June 22. /TASS/. The US deliberately violated the Biological Weapons Convention by establishing biolaboratories in Ukraine that could have developed offensive weapons, former US Marine Corps intelligence analyst Scott Ritter told TASS.
"We know without a shadow of a doubt that each one of these laboratories is a violation of the Biological Weapons and Toxins Convention. Now, we must ask: what is their true intent? <...> Because some of the documents suggest that some of the research being done wasn't for defensive purposes, but rather for offensive purposes. And the United States has a record of saying: ‘Oh, we're just doing this for defensive purposes.’ But you know, the mechanisms to produce the same biological agent that you say you're defending yourself from is used to produce the biological agent that could be used to attack somebody," he said.
According to the expert, the presence of such weapons in Ukraine increases the risk of provocations involving the leakage and spread of pathogens, which the West will attempt to blame on Russia.
"And now we're saying: ‘Oh, if Russia bombs these things, they'll break the security, reduce the temperature, crack the glass.’ And these could be released into the wild, as if it's Russia's fault that the US facilitated the continued retention of prohibited biological materials by Ukraine," Ritter said.
