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From January 29, 2017 until February 4, 2017 the city was embroiled in the Battle of Avdiivka which left Avdiivka without electricity and heating for several days.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/avdiivka-frontline-ukraine-war-russia-backed-separatists Violence flares in war-weary Ukraine as US dithers and Russia pounces], [[The Guardian]] (14 February 2017)</ref><ref>"An AFP reporter saw the separatists shell the town of about 20,000 people with repeated rounds of Grad multiple rocket systems and artillery fire from the early morning. "Right now, there is no power. We have not resolved problems with heating homes, and the gas pipe has been shattered," local Ukrainian army unit spokeswoman Olena Mokrynchuk told AFP [...] The town's heating is provided by a coke plant that has been heavily damaged by the falling shells. Plant director Musa Magomedov said it would be incredibly difficult to resume gas production were the factory's generators shut down. That would leave Avdiivka without a source of local power and uncertainty about its future." https://web.archive.org/web/20170131164143/https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/ukraine-clashes-rage-third-day-sparking-eu-concern |url=https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/ukraine-clashes-rage-third-day-sparking-eu-concern </ref><ref>[http://pda.pravda.com.ua/news/id_7134509/ In Avdiyivka switched to heating mode stable]</ref>
From January 29, 2017 until February 4, 2017 the city was embroiled in the Battle of Avdiivka which left Avdiivka without electricity and heating for several days.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/avdiivka-frontline-ukraine-war-russia-backed-separatists Violence flares in war-weary Ukraine as US dithers and Russia pounces], [[The Guardian]] (14 February 2017)</ref><ref>"An AFP reporter saw the separatists shell the town of about 20,000 people with repeated rounds of Grad multiple rocket systems and artillery fire from the early morning. "Right now, there is no power. We have not resolved problems with heating homes, and the gas pipe has been shattered," local Ukrainian army unit spokeswoman Olena Mokrynchuk told AFP [...] The town's heating is provided by a coke plant that has been heavily damaged by the falling shells. Plant director Musa Magomedov said it would be incredibly difficult to resume gas production were the factory's generators shut down. That would leave Avdiivka without a source of local power and uncertainty about its future." https://web.archive.org/web/20170131164143/https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/ukraine-clashes-rage-third-day-sparking-eu-concern |url=https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/ukraine-clashes-rage-third-day-sparking-eu-concern </ref><ref>[http://pda.pravda.com.ua/news/id_7134509/ In Avdiyivka switched to heating mode stable]</ref>
===US biological labs===
Ukraine has no control over the military bio-laboratories on its own territory. According to the 2005 Agreement between the [[US Department of Defense]] (DoD) and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. The Ukrainian government is prohibited from public disclosure of sensitive information about the US program and Ukraine is obliged to transfer to the US DoD dangerous pathogens for biological research.<ref>https://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/95251.pdf</ref> The [[Pentagon]] has been granted access to certain state secrets of Ukraine in connection with the projects under their agreement. The DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded 11 bio-laboratories in Ukraine.
[[File:Biological research labs.PNG|left|300px|thumb|Russian military reported it had identified 30 sites where biological research with pathogens had been occurring under the direction of the [[Pentagon]].]]
Among the set of bilateral agreements between the US and Ukraine is the establishment of the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine (STCU) – an international organization funded mainly by the US government which has been accorded diplomatic status. The US personnel in Ukraine work under diplomatic cover. The STCU officially supports projects of scientists previously involved in the Soviet biological weapons program. Over the past 20 years the STCU has invested over $285 million in funding and managing some 1,850 projects of scientists who previously worked on the development of weapons of mass destruction.<ref>https://21wire.tv/2018/01/21/wmd-america-inside-the-pentagons-global-bioweapons-industry/</ref>
One such biological lab contractor is [[Metabiota]], a company financed by [[Hunter Biden]]'s [[Rosemont Seneca]] partnership with the state owned Bank of China. Metabiota was awarded a $18.4 million federal contract under the so-called "Defense Threat Reduction Program" in the former Soviet [[Republic of Georgia]] and Ukraine.<ref>https://govtribe.com/contract/award/hdtra114c0104</ref> Metabiota receives the lion's share of funding as a U.S. defense contractor for bio labs in Ukraine.
Captured documents published by Russia claimed the labs were working on [[biological weapons]] such as [[anthrax]] and plague and that the Pentagon instructed the labs to destroy them in violation of Article 1 of the UN Biological Weapons Convention.<ref>https://twitter.com/ASBMilitary/status/1500499205663645700</ref> Russia released captured U.S. documents indicating that among the work of the U.S.-funded biolabs was the testing of 400 and 4000 Ukrainian soldiers, respectively, for antibodies to Crimea-Congo fever and regional hantaviruses, and a search for anthrax spores in soil at livestock graves.
On March 7, 2022, the Russian military claimed to have identified 30 sites where pathogenic research under the direction of the U.S. Defense Department had been occurring on the territory of Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated, "The Ukrainian biological laboratories in [[Lvov]] were conducting work with infectious agents of plague, anthrax, and brucellosis, while the labs in Kharkov and Poltava were working with infectious agents of [[diphtheria]], [[Salmonella|salmonellosis]], and [[dysentery]]…The government in Kiev had sent to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in the United States thousands of patients’ serum samples, primarily from patients of “[[Slavic]] [[ethnic]]ity”, under the pretext of testing [[COVID-19]] treatment methods”.<ref>https://sputniknews.com/20220307/30-biolabs-whose-activities-were-commissioned-by-pentagon-were-formed-in-ukraine---russian-mod-1093662299.html</ref>
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==US-backed Nazi insurgency==
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