# On Her Way Out, Tulsi Gabbard Declassifies Files on 120-Plus US-Funded Biolabs Across 30 Countries

> US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard's office has released documents confirming that the US government funded more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. The release stops short of claiming any of these labs built biological weapons.

**Category:** America · **Published:** 2026-06-13 · **Source:** TrendKia
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For years Moscow has pointed a finger at Washington over a single claim — and now an admission close to that claim has come from the US government itself. The office of National Intelligence Director (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has put out documents acknowledging that the United States bankrolled more than 120 biolabs spread across over 30 countries. These facilities have long carried out research on biological pathogens, and the list includes the very Ukrainian labs that repeatedly sparked controversy during the Russia-Ukraine war.

## What the released documents say
In a statement issued on June 12, the DNI office said that some of these labs had also worked on pathogens classed as dangerous. It further recalled that the US intelligence community had earlier warned that a US-funded lab in Ukraine might hold hazardous microbes, and that it faced the risk of Russian attack, occupation or damage.

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On June 12, 2026, Gabbard wrote on social media that she was releasing never-before-seen intelligence offering fresh evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, Ukraine among them. She tied the move to President Trump's executive order aimed at ending federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function research.

## Why the US funds biolabs in the first place
The disclosure lands just as Gabbard is about to step down as DNI. Notably, her office did not explain why the information was being made public at this particular moment, and the report does not make clear whether any of it is genuinely new or simply already-known material restated. In truth, ever since the Cold War ended, the US has invested through the 'Cooperative Threat Reduction Program' to secure scientific programmes and facilities that were once part of the Soviet Union's old biological and chemical research apparatus. That footprint has covered Ukraine's capital Kyiv, Georgia's capital Tbilisi and several other centres across the former Soviet space. Gabbard said she had put on the table details that, in the past, would get anyone who spoke about them branded a foreign agent.

## Why the Trump administration sharpened its focus
Since returning to power, Donald Trump's administration has taken a far more aggressive line on biological research, and especially on questions surrounding the origins of COVID-19. Allegations that the COVID virus leaked from a lab in China still refuse to die down. The administration argues that several US-funded labs have researched 'dangerous and highly infectious pathogens', and that such work cannot be allowed to continue without tight oversight.

Acting on that thinking, in May 2025 President Trump signed an executive order that halted US-funded 'gain-of-function research' worldwide. That is the kind of research in which the biological traits of organisms or microbes are altered to boost their capabilities.

## Russia's old accusations and America's rebuttal
Ever since ties with the West deteriorated, Moscow has repeatedly alleged that the US is funding biolabs abroad where work linked to potential biological weapons could be taking place. Washington has rejected these charges every time. It is also a signatory to the 1975 Biological Weapons Convention. The US position is that these labs serve disease control, public health and scientific research — not the manufacture of weapons.

## The issue had flared during the Ukraine war too
When Russia launched a full-scale military assault on Ukraine in 2022, Moscow raised the matter of US-funded biolabs there again and again. In response, in 2023 the US State Department accused Russia of spreading propaganda in the name of biological weapons. It said at the time that Russia was making such claims to divert global attention from its own offensive, to chip away at international support for Kyiv and to justify the war.

## What is worth understanding about biolabs
The existence of biolabs is not, in itself, a shocking thing. Many countries around the world host such facilities, where work like public health, vaccine production and research on infectious diseases is carried out.

What deserves attention is that Gabbard's office has only confirmed the funding and the existence of these labs — it has nowhere claimed that biological weapons were built inside them. An ordinary biolab and a weapon-making biolab are two very different things.

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