You know how many countries allow people to petition the president or government in order to seek some change? I just found this by searching for: "на украине лаборатории вирус" (English: on Ukraine laboratories virus).
Original link in Russian: https://petition.president.gov.ua/petition/118694
Google's translated page: https://petition-president-gov-ua.translate.goog/petition/118694?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
The United States has established biolabs in 25 countries around the world: in the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the former Soviet Union. Only in Ukraine there are a dozen of them: in Odessa, Vinnitsa, Uzhgorod, Lvov (three), Kharkov, Kyiv (also three), Kherson, Ternopil.
In late 1991, the US Congress approved the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, known by the names of its initiators, US Senators Nunn and Lugar, which is implemented by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) at the Pentagon. Russia was surrounded by dozens of reference laboratories (CDL), controlled by the Pentagon. In addition to Ukraine, such laboratories are located in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Uzbekistan.
American scientists themselves say that biological weapons are being developed in the Pentagon's biolaboratories. The author of the law against biological terrorism (Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, BWATA), professor of international law at the University of Illinois at Champaign (USA) Francis Boyle said that about 13 thousand scientists in 400 laboratories in the US and abroad are busy creating new strains of combat microbes -killers (offensive killer germs), resistant to vaccines.
More at the links above.
This particular petition failed because it only got 15 votes, but needed 250,000.
Labs and tech are there because degreed professionals can be employed for less than 1k per month… these are not diversity hires either, but real scientists and engineers….