Ukraine has previously abandoned a number of Russian vaccines, which led to “vaccine tours” in which Ukrainian citizens take their children to be vaccinated in Russia, perhaps in this way Ukrainians will eventually receive Sputnik V as well, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Elena Panina.
Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus a hybrid weapon of Russia against Ukraine.
According to Panina, this statement demonstrates the true goals of the current Ukrainian government, the main task of which is to prevent the normalization of Russian-Ukrainian relations at any cost, as well as the growth of the influence of the Opposition Platform, whose leaders persuaded Russia to help Ukraine with a vaccine.
“Against this background, such“ trifles ”as the health and safety of their own citizens do not bother Kiev officials at all. But the fact that the Sputnik V vaccine destroys anti-Russian stereotypes openly scares them. By the way, this also applies to other Russian vaccines from already familiar and well-known diseases, which the inhabitants of Ukraine were also deprived of after 2014, “Panina told RIA Novosti.
“After Kiev switched to expensive Western analogues, any vaccines became scarce, as a result of which tens of thousands of Ukrainian mothers bring their children to Russia to vaccinate. Even such a concept as” vaccine tours “has come into fashion. It is possible that in this way Ukrainians will eventually receive and “Sputnik V” – says Panina.