Scott Ritter, a former Marine intelligence officer who served as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq, who has both knowledge of bioweapons and excellent sources in the military, laid waste to the U.S.-UK effort to deny the Russian exposure of the U.S. funded and controlled bioweapons labs in Ukraine. Interviewed by George Galloway on his MOATS TV channel, Ritter began by noting the the effort by Victoria Nuland and others to claim the labs were for research, not for weapons, was bogus. “The U.S. is walking a thin line regarding what is legal and what is not under the Biological and Toxins Weapons Convention.” He noted that the head of the Convention had warned before the Russian incursion that there was a danger that if a lab was bombed and the power went out, the frozen pathogen samples would melt and leak. Ritter added that several of the labs were formerly Soviet weapons labs, and scientists save their work. “So yes, these are weapons labs.”
He said he expected the Russian forces to use overwhelming power, “which they are fully capable of doing.” But they did not, and Ukrainian families still in the country have told their families abroad that the Russians have been polite, and even withdrew in several cases in which Ukrainian forces counter attacked an area they had occupied because they did not want to fight in civilian areas. A Russian General said they were using “the tactics from Syria,” not, as the western press claims, by flattening Aleppo, but the opposite — by surrounding it and allowing the jihadists to leave on busses, so that there would not be urban warfare. He said a Russian team of special forces entered Kharkov to negotiate moving through, but the mayor who negotiated it was murdered and the Russian team with him by the Azov Brigade,
