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Russian propaganda's latest invention: Ukraine is "developing biological weapons" and using birds to deliver viruses.

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Russia’s state media RIA Novosti cites its Defense Ministry spreading false claims that the Kremlin forces have “exposed” a secret project where a flu strain was being developed in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa's laboratories. Moscow says that Ukraine intends to distribute new viruses in Russia through bats and migratory birds.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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