According to him, he held meetings with the head of the RDIF Kirill Dmitriev and the director of the Gamaleya center Alexander Gintsburg.

“We have created a joint Ukrainian-Russian working group.

We carried out all these studies, and it was decided that the transfer of technologies and the transfer of raw materials to Ukraine for the production of vaccines was possible.

Well, it would seem, what else?

But no.

First, they talked about the fact that there is no such vaccine, then - that they did not pass the third phase of testing.

When we proved to them that none of the vaccines, neither Moderna, nor Pfizer, nor AstraZeneca, passed the third stage, they began to say that it ("Sputnik V" -

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) is ineffective, "he said in an interview on YouTube -channel RT Russia.

Medvedchuk noted that on the part of Ukrainian officials "bullshit is erupting."

“This is all that is directed against the interests of people,” he stressed.

Earlier, the Minister of Health of Ukraine Maxim Stepanov said that the country would not register the Russian vaccine. 

In early January, the RDIF noted that the fund is ready to begin clinical trials of a joint coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V and AstraZeneca in Ukraine. 

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called the Russian vaccine Russia's "hybrid weapon" against Ukraine.