KYIV, Dec 18 – President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine had lost its position in the world and Europe in terms of the priority of countries for receiving the vaccine against COVID-19, but despite this, the state "primarily bases its decision on choosing a safe vaccine," the President's Office said.

"I'll try to explain to you everything that's going on with the vaccine right now. I faced the fact that Ukraine's position in the world and in Europe in terms of the priority of countries has been lost. We are not on the list of countries that receive the vaccine first. That is why here we must be, so to speak, acrobats in politics, in order to somehow manage to get into the priority of countries, we must be very flexible, diplomatic," Zelensky said in an interview with the New York Times.