Full-fledged international travel will not be available to Ukrainians until vaccination is completed in the country, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
“The main priority now is vaccination … Full international travel will not be resumed until vaccinations are completed and the pandemic is brought under control,” Kuleba said in an interview with the Kyiv Post on April 2.
The Minister noted that Ukraine is no exception, and that vaccines are still a scarce resource around the world. This makes some countries “vaccine nationalists,” he said, as they stop vaccine exports until their populations are fully immunized.
According to Kuleba, this is a huge challenge, but diplomacy is also making every effort to ensure that friendly countries like Poland help Ukraine get more vaccines.
“Friends share [what they have] even in the darkest times. And Ukraine also has friends … We would really like to see the dominance of ‘vaccine liberal democracy,’ but reality suggests a different picture, and we need to honestly look at this,” added the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
