On Sunday, March 6, 2022, Russian news agency Ria Novosti released documents they claim show Ukraine was working on "biological weapons" near the Russian border. Ria Novosti accused the US of instructing Ukraine to destroy the biological agents before the Russian invasion.

BREAKING: Russia publishes documents which show Ukraine was working on biological weapons near russian borders — such as Anthrax and Plague & that the pentagon has instructed to destroy them — violating article 1 UN prohibition of biological weapons. — These are US funded labs pic.twitter.com/DngZkGwws2

— ASB News / MILITARY?? (@ASBMilitary) March 6, 2022

The Ministry of Health in Ukraine ordered the biological agents be destroyed in a February 24 memo.

Russia also released a list of the biological agents allegedly be stored in the lab for testing. The list included Salmonella and E. Coli.

Update: Upon further review Anthrax and The Plague were not listed in the documents as Russia claimed.  However, a US-funded labatory in Odessa, Ukraine was testing Anthrax and The Plague according to Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Hat Tip to CannCon for originally reported on the US-funded labs back on March 1.

And now we know who was funding the Ukrainian Biolabs. It was the US Department of Defense. A document from the US Embassy that was scrubbed from the internet was found in the Wayback Machine.

The document reveals the US Department of Defense was donating to the Ukrainian diagnostic biolabs.