“Viktor Medvedchuk has already agreed to receive the only Sputnik V vaccine available in the shortest possible time.

Moreover, Ukraine may even start producing it, ”the party's website says.

It is noted that the "Opposition Platform - For Life" initiates the collection of signatures for the receipt and production of the Russian vaccine against COVID-19.

“Let's start with the residents of Pokrovsk, Dobropolye, Myrnograd.

Later we will cover the entire Donetsk region, Luhansk region and extend to the whole of Ukraine.

With the requirement to register and provide the people of Ukraine with vaccines, ”added Marchevsky.

Earlier, Viktor Medvedchuk, head of the political council of the Ukrainian party Opposition Platform - For Life (Opposition Platform - For Life), said that the Kharkiv pharmaceutical company Biolek had submitted documents to the Ukrainian authorities for state registration of the Russian drug Sputnik V.

After that, the chief sanitary doctor of Ukraine Viktor Lyashko said that "Ukraine will use only those vaccines against COVID-19 that have successfully passed the third phase of clinical trials."

Later, the chairman of the National Medical Chamber of Ukraine, Serhiy Kravchenko, said that Lyashko's words about the impossibility of registering a Russian vaccine were "lies."