In December, Moscow concluded a deal with Caracas on the supply of 10 million doses of Sputnik V, the world's first registered vaccine against COVID-19, to Venezuela.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has stated that when it comes to COVID-19 vaccine, Western countries are attacking Russia because of envy.
"Now they are carrying out an attack of envy […] because Russia produced in record time Sputnik V, the most effective and safest vaccine against the coronavirus in the world", Maduro said on Wednesday, adding the West is involved in such behaviour instead of cooperating with Moscow in terms of vaccine production.