U.S. funding for a Pentagon program meant to secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction has helped fuel a propaganda war with the Kremlin accusing the work of funding bioweapons research in Ukraine – with some Russia proxies using the labs to justify the .The Pentagon says it has invested $200 million in Ukraine since 2005 through its Biological Threat Reduction Program – an offshoot of the Nunn-Lugar program enacted after the end of the Cold War. The program has 'improved Ukraine’s biological safety, security and surveillance for both human and animal health,' according to the Pentagon, including by reducing the risk of the Soviet Union's program.
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