A major medical milestone reached here in the past couple of hours we can tell you about.

President Putin has revealed that Russia has registered the world's first coronavirus vaccine.

There's nothing covert about Russia's attempts to promote its vaccine, Sputnik 5.

State media and political speeches have swapped science for nationalistic further.

President Vladimir Putin has made no secret. science for nationalistic further.

President Vladimir Putin has made no secret of Russia's ambition

to be the first to win the global vaccine race.

As far as I know, this morning, for the first time in the world, a vaccine against the novel

coronavirus infection was registered.

Russian state media has been gushing daily about a roll call of government ministers and

senior officials receiving the vaccine.

Even President Putin's family have joined in.

I know this very well because one of my daughters has been vaccinated with such a vaccine.

One might say she took part in the experiment.

And every day, frenzied headlines quote the president spokesman, Dimitri Pescov, saying

Vladimir Putin himself is on the verge of being injected.

But the very visible propaganda and nationalistic showboating around the Russian vaccine is just the tip of the iceberg.

At the time that the world is coming together to try and tackle COVID-19, particularly come up with a global solution for a vaccine,

I think it's outrageous and reprehensible that the Russian government is engaged in this activity.

The authorities in Britain have been worried about Russian black ops against the vaccine

for months. Now, stories of our times has uncovered

evidence that Russia is engaged in a global campaign of lies and disinformation, designed to discredit the Oxford vaccine.

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