The Kremlin, citing data from the Russian special services, claims that the United States and its allies are preparing a large-scale information attack against the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.
“Against the background of the growing demand for the Russian Sputnik-V vaccine around the world, including in European countries, the United States and its allies, according to our intelligence services, are planning to launch a large-scale information campaign aimed at creating a bias towards domestic scientific developments in in the area of countering the spread of COVID-19”, – a senior Kremlin source told Interfax.
According to him, “the target audience of the anti-Russian information campaign has been selected the European countries that have registered the Sputnik V vaccine for emergency use – these are Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, Montenegro, San Marino and North Macedonia”.
A Kremlin spokesman explained that “a scenario of an information attack on Sputnik V is being prepared through controlled nongovernmental organizations and media structures, within which it is planned to reinforce the promoted theses” about the ineffectiveness and danger of a vaccine “by staging mass deaths allegedly as a result of using the drug”.
The source claims that the United States and its allies are planning to circulate “exposing materials” about the incompetence of Russian specialists in the field of vaccination and immunology.