The White House intends to take measures to protect the development of vaccines

“We worked very closely with the allies to ensure that we take measures to keep this information safe ... We are aware of such activities,” TASS quoted it as saying.

Earlier, the British cybersecurity service said that the hacker group Cozy Bear, which, according to London, “is almost certainly part of the Russian intelligence services,” attacked organizations involved in the development of a vaccine against COVID-19 in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

The Kremlin called such allegations unfounded.

The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, explained that Russia does not need to "steal" the development of vaccines from coronavirus in the UK, since AstraZeneca agreed with R-Pharm and has already transferred all the developments.

He also called the statement by Britain an attempt to tarnish the Russian vaccine, which "could potentially be the first on the market and potentially the most successful."