A Simple Question

US officials now are claiming the purpose of the (allegedly nonexistent) BW labs in Ukraine is to eliminate dangerous weapons in former Soviet states.

Well, the USSR broke up in 1991.

And according to their own documents, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency has been working with Ukraine since at least 2005:

https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FACT-SHEET-THE-DEPARTMENT-OF-DEFENSE'S-COOPERATIVE-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-BIOLOGICAL-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-ACTIVITIES-IN-UKRAINE.PDF

So, seventeen years later why should there still be dangerous pathogens in Ukraine left over from the USSR?