“Putin has ordered his military to seek and destroy US-Deep State bio-labs" in Ukraine.”
Social media posts
Facebook. Claim dated 26 Feb 2022.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
The U.S. Department of Defense and Ukraine’s Ministry of Health work together to ensure that labs studying disease in Ukraine could not be used to develop biological weapons.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 26 February 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 March 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.ph/VQEUg
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