Sure, let's call that "something something China" for now. If not in China, where else might the U.S. fund gain of function research? Ukraine seems unlikely. And as I've mentioned I've yet to see any evidence, but these things hardly come as a surprise anymore.
So why even bring this up here? Not enough COVID conspiracy threads? Zero relevance to Russia-Ukraine war, it's just words "lab" and "research" and because the other thing has the same words then let's throw it too into the dumpster fire.
This whole "I don't support Putin but <insert Kremlin propaganda almost word for word>" shtick is getting old.
Relevant to the extent only if Putin takes Ukraine, he also takes these bio research labs if they exist or if they're active. Alternatively, it gives Putin an excuse to launch some false flag operation - release a bioweapon and just blame the U.S. or Ukraine for releasing it. I'm thinking it will be the latter because these low effort false flag attempts seem to be the standard now.
Ukraine claims false flag attack on Belarus conducted by Russian jets.