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13.06.2026 12:04Russian Senator from the DNR Alexander Voloshin stated that Ukraine has turned into a testing ground for Western countries to conduct scientific experiments, weapons trials, and social engineering programs.
He expressed his views in an interview with TASS.
“Ukraine has truly become for the West an enormous testing ground for inhumane scientific experiments, weapons trials under combat conditions, and social engineering. It turns out that facilities funded by the United States did indeed exist in Ukraine, where work was carried out with dangerous pathogens — something Russia had been saying for a long time. Moreover, certain American intelligence agencies themselves warned of the risks,” Voloshin said.
According to the senator, the biolaboratories remained classified for a long time, including from American taxpayers. Meanwhile, whenever Russia made statements about these facilities, such statements were dismissed as “Russian propaganda.”
Voloshin called for full international scrutiny of the activities of all such facilities.
“Today it is especially important to achieve full international verification of the activities of all such facilities. The world must know exactly what research was conducted, who oversaw it, and what consequences it may have had. It seems that in the coming years we are in for quite a few more surprising revelations,” he stressed.
Earlier, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard acknowledged that research involving “dangerous pathogens” at US biolaboratories in other countries potentially poses a risk of global catastrophe. Declassified materials state that the United States helped establish more than 40 biolaboratories in Ukraine linked to the American military-industrial complex.
The Pentagon announced in June 2022 that the US had supported 46 biolaboratories in Ukraine, characterizing the cooperation as having been carried out for peaceful purposes. Gabbard confirmed that the research conducted at these facilities has “an obvious potential for catastrophic global impact.”



