Hey, you're listening to episode 34 of Unlimited Hangout. I'm your host Whitney Webb.

For weeks now, Ukraine has dominated the headlines in both mainstream and independent media,

following on the heels of COVID-19, the Ukraine conflict oddly enough has a surprising

parallel with the pandemic, the specter of lab leaks gained a function research and potentially

bio-terror. In late February, soon after the conflict between Ukraine and Russia erupted,

a theory emerged that many of the Russian missile strikes throughout the Ukraine had coincided

with the locations of US-funded biolabs in the country. While I personally did not look into

or confirm whether that alleged coincidence was true, the Bulgarian journalist Dilyana

Gaitanyeva took to Twitter to claim that the US Embassy in Ukraine was subsequently deleting

documentation about Pentagon-funded biolabs present in the country. Initially derided as a

nutty conspiracy, dreamt up by the Kremlin and the organs of Russian propaganda, the Godmother of

the 2014 US-Bakku and Ukraine, in current undersecretary of state for political affairs,

Victoria Newland testified before the US Senate on March 8 and confirmed that the US has

quote, biological research facilities throughout Ukraine. Many of those who had previously dismissed

their existence as having been just a kooky conspiracy theory, then shifted years arguing now that

these biological research facilities were benign and unconnected to any potential bio-weapons research.

However, old media reports and US government documents on Earth by one of my guests today

shows that at least one of the Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine, located in the coastal city of

Odessa, was a biosafety level 3 lab researching quote, dangerous pathogens used by bio-terrorists

in quote, and that more generally the US government feels that monitoring the so-called

biological research facilities in Ukraine and other countries is essentially pointless because

bio-weapons research is easily quote, disguised within legitimate activities. Joining me today to

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