SPutnik International
By Denis Bolotsky
May 26, 2022
As Russia launched a probe into US biological research in Ukraine, similar American activities in other parts of the world are now being looked into with extra scrutiny.
In April 2022, Indonesian news outlet Detik broke a story about alleged violations of the country’s laws by US Navy personnel during the 2016 Pacific Partnership exercise in the West Sumatran coastal city of Padang. According to documents obtained by reporters, American naval surgeons performed operations on 23 local patients on board hospital ship the USNS Mercy without coordination with Indonesia’s Ministry of Health.