"Sputnik" does not return to Russia, "Matovich wrote on his Facebook.

According to him, there was a lot of indignation in the country when the drug arrived in the country.

He clarified that the talks stopped after the Russian side offered to return the vaccines without sanctions.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia Veronika Remishova and Foreign Minister of the Republic Ivan Korchok welcomed the start of the examination of the Russian vaccine against coronavirus Sputnik V by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).