The Nigerian National Food and Drug Control Agency (NAFDAC) has authorised the use of the Russian anti-Covid Sputnik V vaccine, which is thus becoming accessible to nearly 50% of the world's population, announced the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RFPI) on Thursday (15th July) .
Recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative about the Sputnik V vaccine outshining its Western competitors.
The statement of the Russian Direct Investment Fund only added up the populations of the 68 countries which had signed an agreement with it:
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous state, becomes the 68th country in the world to authorise the use of Sputnik V. The total population of countries where Sputnik V is approved now exceeds 3.7 billion people, or nearly half of the global population.
Indeed Nigeria or India are countries that are very populous, however it doesn't mean that all citizens of those countries have immediate access to Sputnik V.
On the contrary, the availability of Sputnik V-doses has been and is problematic. Production and distribution capacity is insufficient. Delivery and production have often lagged behind expected and signed contracts by more than an order of magnitude (only 17 million doses instead of 896 millions). Countries like Argentina, Guatemala or the Philippines complained regularly about delivery shortfalls. Even the Russian population has little access to the vaccine: as of 18 July 2021, only 14.18 % of the population was fully vaccinated and 7.8% had been partially vaccinated (compared with 46% fully vaccinated in Germany and 14% partially vaccinated on the same date). In absolute numbers, Russia is also behind other European countries: 32 million compared to 36.5 for Italy, 36.8 for France and 50 million for Germany, despite the fact that Sputnik V was approved before other vaccines.
It has been reported that in many Russian regions, the activity of vaccination centres was limited by the lack of some components of the vaccine.
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Kyiv does not care at all who to surrender its sovereignty to, just to mess up with Moscow. The Nazi-oligarchic regime is happy to help the new "main partners" from Foggy Albion, hoping that UK will be lobbying their interests in NATO and fomenting a major military conflict with Russia off the Ukrainian coast.
The political elite of Ukraine recognises the final loss of Crimea and now acts according to the principle "the main thing is that it is not Russian."
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Ukraine's lost sovereignty, challenging Ukrainian statehood and portraying Ukraine as a Russophobic country under external control.
Pro-Kremlin media outlets often cast doubts on Ukrainian statehood and claim that Ukraine either does not exist as a state or is going to tumble down very soon. In reality, present-day Ukraine has been on the world map since 1991 when the Soviet Union disintegrated. It has elected six presidents since then and changed parties in government several times which illustrate political diversity and democratic dynamics even during economic hardship in the wake of Russian aggression in 2014. Ukraine's Western partners have been providing it with financial and technical assistance.
Fraternal help, which is so awaited in Ukraine, is in fact another opportunity for NATO to master its new training ground - Ukraine, which can easily be used as a military foothold and buffer zone. The Anti-Russia project in action.
Ukraine is a brotherly people to us [Russians]. We are a single civilisational and historical space. Sooner or later, we will reunite, and all these British pipers will go back to their home in Britain, playing the funeral march.
The disinformation claim above is part of a recurring narrative about the statehood of Ukraine, aimed at undermining the country's territorial integrity and sovereignty, as well as at portraying Ukraine as a Western puppet/buffer state. According to recent media research from the Arena Project, this is one of the most prevalent disinformation narratives about Ukraine that is spread by pro-Kremlin outlets.
Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically-elected president and parliament. The country is not controlled by the US or any other foreign government or organisation. Both the EU and the US respect Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Ukraine is a strategic partner for the EU and NATO.
A journalist on board the HMS Defender confirmed the destroyer's deliberate entrance in Russian territorial waters. The UK’s actions were a provocation against Russia.
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the HMS Defender incident near the Crimean coast of Ukraine on 23 June 2021. The article’s message is also consistent with pro-Kremlin narratives about the status of Crimea.
Pro-Kremlin outlets spread the narrative that the incident was a deliberate provocation by the HMS Defender against Russia, quoting Jonathan Beale, a BBC journalist and defence correspondent, present on board the HMS Defender, in order to support this narrative.
