they were carried out by kyiv and financed by the united states of america. reporter: multiple times, the russian foreign ministry has resurfaced the debunked story. on tuesday, it was mentioned by a russian ally. translator: it is reported those buy low yoe labs store a large number of dangerous viruses. during russian military operation, it was found the u.s. is using those facilities to conduct biological militarization activities. alongside these official statements it is being repeatedly shared across social media from facebook to twitter to telegram. and cnn s been tracking its spread and you can see here it s been posted in canada, australia, germany, and this tweet as one example. you can see it s been retweeted over 500 times, already. the theory has now attracted attention of figures and platforms with significant followings in the united states. go into ukraine, and take out the biolabs. such as the conspiracy theorist stu peters and has been featured on a far-righ
it s our intel community s question. the fact that russia has not launched a more major cyber attack against ukraine or for that matter, launched a level of cyber attacks against the west of the united states is still, it s kind of like the dog that didn t bark. i m glad that s not happened, but unlike the russian military operation where they ve not been, there s not been battle testing over the last ten or 20 years, we have seen the russian cyber activities because we ve seen them attack ukraine and in 2017. we ve seen russian entities attacks a couple of years ago that caused gas lines around america. we know they ve got first rate cyber capabilities and thank goodness we have not seen them launch them to date. while i have you, i want to ask you about news we re getting in right now and that is about this trump era policy known at