Ursula Von Der Leyen, Führer of Germany’s EU, wants Europeans to get vaccinated with Putin’s Sputnik V.
The Anglophone press is quiet about this so far. Here the link to the German article: https://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Von-der-Leyen-offen-fuer-Sputnik-Zulassung-article22333916.html

Not that I would take it but it seems better than we thought.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00191-4/fulltext
“Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine candidate appears safe and effective”
I still don’t trust Sputnik V. The Lancet has made some real blunders in the past before. And, if a statement says “appears”, extreme caution would be wise.
I will never take anything produced in fascist neonazzi terrorist Russia.