Khartsyzsk, Jul 1 - DAN. A new batch of COVID-19 vaccines is expected to be supplied to the Donetsk People’s Republic shortly, DPR Head Denis Pushilin said at a meeting with workers at the Khartsyzsk machine-building plant on Thursday.

“<...>within the next few weeks, perhaps sooner,” Pushilin said in reply to the question regarding the vaccine delivery date. “It’s a matter of logistics now; there had been more obstacles before the phone-in session (of Russian President Vladimir Putin - eds Donetsk News Agency).

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to supply more batches of COVID-19 vaccines to the DPR and the LPR.*jk