Ukrainian bat research has swiftly become the eye of a disinformation storm.
“bats were considered as carriers of potential bioweapon agents,” and offered the sample transfer agreement as proof. “We do not know anything about the fate of those dangerous biomaterials and the consequences that may occur once they ‘dissipate,’” Nebenzia told the Security Council. “Risks are high that they may be stolen for terrorist purposes or to be sold at the black market.”
Silaghi still doesn’t know how the Russian Ministry of Defense obtained the routine transfer agreement. Anton Vlaschenko, a Kharkiv-based biologist and collaborator on the project, suspects one of the team’s email accounts was hacked by Russians. Other Ukrainian researchers have been swept up in the disinformation campaign. The Kharkiv veterinary institute is part of athrough its Biological Threat Reduction Program . That decades-old effort aimed to secure the remnants of Soviet-era biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons research by dismantling labs and finding alternate work for Soviet weapons scientists.
To Vlaschenko, who runs the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Center in Kharkiv, the efforts to turn their survey work into something menacing seems laughable–as long as Kharkiv remains in Ukrainian hands. “We don’t have such genetic laboratories that we would need for biological weapons,” he says. “It’s very funny to hear it from the Russians that we are doing this kind of research.” But if the city is occupied, Vlaschenko says he fears being captured and tortured into “some kind of confession.
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