Ukrainian social media users accused Slovak Prime Minister Igor Matovich of “wiping their feet” on Ukraine after his joke about the conditions for the delivery of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine to the country. RIA Novosti writes about it.
As Rambler reported, Slovakia became the second country in the European Union to allow the use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.
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At the same time, she purchased the vaccine without waiting for its registration with the European Medicines Agency (EMA). During the interview, Igor Matovich, answering a journalist's question that he had promised Russia for a vaccine against coronavirus, joked that “Transcarpathian Ukraine”. In Ukraine, this statement caused a scandal.
Ukrainian users of social networks saw in the premier's joke “claims to foreign territories” and expressed the opinion that such thoughts “did not arise out of nowhere.”
“I’m just wondering if Slovakia received a“ note of protest ”after such statements by the Prime Minister? Where is the reaction of the diplomatic service after such a public humiliation of our Motherland? ” – asked @OneSvetla.
“They wiped their feet on Ukraine once again,” noted @ PoMaH_25.
The users emphasized that they were waiting for the official actions of the Ukrainian authorities and stated that foreign politicians behave with the country “as with an empty space”.
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