Russians working on vaccine against COVID-19 come under US sanctions

This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

“It is unclear how the American authorities will explain to their citizens this attempt to punish people who are working - and successfully - on a cure for a disease that has killed more than 180,000 US citizens,” she said.

One gets the impression that we are talking about the banal use of sanctions to promote their own pharmaceutical companies, Zakharova added, drawing an analogy with pushing American gas into the European market.

“As for the motivation used by the“ colleagues ”about the alleged involvement of scientific institutes in the programs of chemical and biological weapons, as always, no evidence is provided,” the diplomat emphasized.

Earlier, the Bureau of Industry and Security under the US Department of Commerce included the 33rd Central Research and Testing Institute of the Ministry of Defense, the 48th Central Research Institute in Kirov, the 48th Central Research Institute in Sergiev Posad, the 48th Central Research Institute in Yekaterinburg and the State Research Institute of Organic Chemistry. and technology.

As noted in the Kremlin, the new sanctions against Russian research institutes are a continuation of the US sanctions dependence, a theater of the absurd.