Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of 'SCORPION KING: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump'. He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf's staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector.
"Unless Washington can prove otherwise, the available evidence points to the US operating biological laboratories inside Ukraine which allegedly violated the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention."
https://www.rt.com/news/551618-bioweapons-programs-us-ukraine/
"Of note was the fact that none of this was mentioned in the entirety of [Victoria Nuland’s] opening speech."
Maria Zakharova:
"We confirm that, during the special military operation in Ukraine, the Kiev regime was found to have been concealing traces of a military biological program implemented with funding from the United States Department of Defense."
According to Zakharova, the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, on February 24 - the first day of the Russian offensive - had ordered all the Ukrainian biological laboratories to “urgently” eradicate the stored reserves of "highly hazardous pathogens of plague, anthrax, rabbit fever, cholera and other lethal diseases”. She said the documentation on the “urgent eradication” of the pathogens was “received from employees of Ukrainian laboratories".
"The urgent eradication of highly hazardous pathogens on February 24 was ordered to prevent exposing a violation of Article I of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) by Ukraine and the United States."
Bulgarian investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva:
"The US Army regularly produces deadly viruses, bacteria and toxins in direct violation of the UN Convention on the prohibition of Biological Weapons. Hundreds of thousands of unwitting people are systematically exposed to dangerous pathogens and other incurable diseases. Bio-warfare scientists using diplomatic cover test man-made viruses at Pentagon bio laboratories in 25 countries across the world."
Ritter:
"If this is the case, then the Ukrainian labs could very well be the repository of Anthrax 836, an extremely deadly strain of that disease specifically developed to be delivered in warheads mounted on SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missiles operating from Ukraine."
And:
"If Marco Rubio had been doing his job, instead of promoting anti-Russian propaganda, he could have - indeed, should have - held Victoria Nuland's feet to the fire regarding what was really going on at the US-backed biological labs in Ukraine. There might be an innocuous answer out there. But until it is provided, it appears that Russia did in Ukraine what the US was unable to in Iraq - launched an attack on a nation which was in possession of prohibited biological weapons."