"On April 21, the embassy started vaccination of employees of the diplomatic mission," TASS reports.

As noted, diplomats are vaccinated with Sputnik V.

The embassy clarified that one of the first to take root was Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkey Alexei Yerkhov.

Earlier, Russian Ambassador to Argentina Dmitry Feoktistov was vaccinated against coronavirus with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.