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Kiev
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitri Kuleba said on Tuesday he does not want the country to grant approval to the Russian-developed COVID-19 vaccine, known as Sputnik V, and would prefer to wait for others to become available.
Ukraine considers Russia’s vaccine to be insufficiently clinically tested.
“Russia does not think about the health of Ukrainians.” Kuleba told broadcaster 1 + 1, adding that Russians were more concerned with spreading propaganda.
There are no conclusive medical reports on the effectiveness of the vaccine, he said.
Many countries, including Argentina, Hungary and Serbia are relying on the Russian-developed Sputnik V.
Ukraine is pinning its hope on support from the World Health Organization, as well as on a Chinese vaccine. However, experts do not expect immunizations to start before March.
Earlier reports suggested a company in the eastern Ukrainian and Russian-speaking city of Kharkiv had applied for the approval of Sputnik V at the end of 2020.
The authorities are unlikely to approve the application.
Relations between Russia and Ukraine were shattered by Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014.
Ukraine is currently enduring a second lockdown, though experts say infections, hospitalizations and deaths have passed their peak for this wave.
More than 1.1 million people in Ukraine have been infected with the coronavirus and more than 20,000 have died so far in the pandemic.
Kiev
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitri Kuleba said on Tuesday he does not want the country to grant approval to the Russian-developed COVID-19 vaccine, known as Sputnik V, and would prefer to wait for others to become available.
Ukraine considers Russia’s vaccine to be insufficiently clinically tested.
“Russia does not think about the health of Ukrainians.” Kuleba told broadcaster 1 + 1, adding that Russians were more concerned with spreading propaganda.
There are no conclusive medical reports on the effectiveness of the vaccine, he said.
Many countries, including Argentina, Hungary and Serbia are relying on the Russian-developed Sputnik V.
Ukraine is pinning its hope on support from the World Health Organization, as well as on a Chinese vaccine. However, experts do not expect immunizations to start before March.
Earlier reports suggested a company in the eastern Ukrainian and Russian-speaking city of Kharkiv had applied for the approval of Sputnik V at the end of 2020.
The authorities are unlikely to approve the application.
Relations between Russia and Ukraine were shattered by Russia’s annexation of the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014.
Ukraine is currently enduring a second lockdown, though experts say infections, hospitalizations and deaths have passed their peak for this wave.
More than 1.1 million people in Ukraine have been infected with the coronavirus and more than 20,000 have died so far in the pandemic.
