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Kiev may face accusations of producing biological weapons — Russian MP

TASS · · 239 words
Delegitimization of Ukrainian Government US Involvement in Ukraine Biological Weapons Allegations

Leonid Slutsky, a Russian lawmaker, claims that the Ukrainian government may face accusations of developing biological weapons on its territory. Slutsky cites a 2023 Russian parliamentary investigation and references comments by US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard regarding biological laboratories.

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7 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Leonid Slutsky is the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia”
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Wikipedia and other search results explicitly confirm Leonid Slutsky is the leader of the LDPR and the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.
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web search NEUTRAL — Leonid Eduardovich Slutsky[a] (/ ˈsluːtski / SLOOT-ski; Russian: Леонид Эдуардович Слуцкий; born 4 January 1968) is a Russian politician who leads the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) since 2…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Slutsky_(politician)
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web search NEUTRAL — Doctor of Economics, Head of the Department of International Relations and Integration Processes, Faculty of Political Science, Moscow State University MV Lomonosov. Deputy of the State Duma of the Ru…
https://lslutsky.ru/en/home-page/
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web search NEUTRAL — Leonid Slutsky (politician) Leonid Eduardovich Slutsky (born 4 January 1968) is a Russian politician serving as Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) since 2022, Head of the LDPR f…
https://grokipedia.com/page/Leonid_Slutsky_(politician)
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“US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard said that more than 120 biological laboratories in over 30 countries funded by US taxpayers over several decades were under investigation”
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Multiple independent news sources (TASS, RT, and a report citing the New York Post) confirm that DNI Tulsi Gabbard stated over 120 US-funded biological laboratories in over 30 countries are under investigation.
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web search NEUTRAL — WASHINGTON — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is investigating more than 120 biological laboratories abroad that were funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades, as part of an effort …
https://nypost.com/2026/05/11/us-news/dni-tulsi-gabbard-prob…
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web search NEUTRAL — Leonid Slutsky commented on remarks by US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, who said that more than 120 biological laboratories in over 30 countries funded by US taxpayers over several dec…
https://tass.com/politics/2130011
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web search NEUTRAL — US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.The US has launched a probe into more than 120 American-funded biological labs abroad, including in Ukraine, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi …
https://rurtnews.com/news/639886-gabbard-probe-us-funded-bio…
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“According to the New York Post, more than 40 of them [biological laboratories] are located in Ukraine”
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While the general probe by Tulsi Gabbard is corroborated, the specific detail that 'more than 40' are in Ukraine is attributed to the New York Post in the provided evidence, but the provided search results for the NY Post specifically are generic landing pages and do not show the text of the article to confirm the number independently.
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web search NEUTRAL — Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
https://news.google.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Here are the best purifiers to help keep it clean. AI isn’t actually ‘taking’ your job. Here’s what’s happening instead. There’s one month until World Cup 2026 kicks off. Here are 5 things to know....
https://www.cnn.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Here are 5 things that happened on its first day. In 1980, U.S. men’s hockey beat the Soviet Union in the "Miracle on Ice," a famous upset. What Olympic medal did the U.S. team win two days later? Ans…
https://apnews.com/
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“the Yermak-Mindich criminal case already spans 40 volumes”
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The evidence confirms that Andrey Yermak is facing criminal cases and mentions a 'Mindich scandal', but none of the provided sources mention the specific detail that the case 'spans 40 volumes'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Andrey Yermak, a former influential chief of staff to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, has been named a suspect in a new criminal case, according to a statement posted on Telegram by the country’s …
https://www.rt.com/russia/639869-zelenskys-former-chief-of-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — Report says Yermak told Zelenskyy Kolomoisky may have sparked Mindichgate as NABU’s Midas raids expose a high-level kickback scheme.
https://english.nv.ua/nation/yermak-links-mindich-scandal-to…
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web search NEUTRAL — Slidstvo.Info: The estates in the Yermak case were consecrated by an archpriest of the UOC-MP linked to "Pasha Mercedes". After the occupation of Crimea, Viktor Drebotiy and his family visited the pen…
https://news.liga.net/en/society/news/slidstvoinfo-the-estat…
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“in 2022-2023, the State Duma and the Federation Council conducted a parliamentary investigation involving Russian and foreign experts”
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The search results provided for this claim are completely irrelevant, discussing the Russian language rather than parliamentary investigations.
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web search NEUTRAL — Russian[d] is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, [e] and is the native language of t…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn Russian online with our free Russian language lessons. Includes Russian audio, grammar, vocabulary, alphabet, verbs, pronunciation and exercises.
https://www.russianlessons.net/
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web search NEUTRAL — Russian language, principal state and cultural language of Russia. Russian is the primary language of the overwhelming majority of people in Russia and is also used as a second language in other forme…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Russian-language
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“one of the commission’s conclusions was that Ukraine had been implementing military-related projects 'under the guise of medical and biological activities' in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention”
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The search results provided for this claim are completely irrelevant, discussing the Russian language rather than parliamentary commissions or biological weapons.
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web search NEUTRAL — Russian[d] is an East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, [e] and is the native language of t…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn Russian online with our free Russian language lessons. Includes Russian audio, grammar, vocabulary, alphabet, verbs, pronunciation and exercises.
https://www.russianlessons.net/
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web search NEUTRAL — Russian language, principal state and cultural language of Russia. Russian is the primary language of the overwhelming majority of people in Russia and is also used as a second language in other forme…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Russian-language
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“The report by the State Duma parliamentary commission investigating the circumstances surrounding the establishment of biological laboratories by US specialists on Ukrainian territory was officially published in the summer of 2023”
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The search results provided for this claim are completely irrelevant, discussing lists of US states rather than the State Duma parliamentary commission report.
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web search NEUTRAL — List of states and territories of the United States A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territori…
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web search NEUTRAL — Washington D.C., (Washington, District of Columbia) is a federal district and capital of the United States and is not considered a state. The United States also has sovereignty over 14 other territori…
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states
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web search NEUTRAL — State information resources for all things about the 50 states including alphabetical states list, state abbreviations, symbols, flags, maps, state capitals, songs, birds, flowers, trees and much more
https://www.50states.com/
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