"Putin explained why he did not take the vaccine in front of the cameras. According to him, he did not want to act like "monkey".

“Do we really have to play monkey with you, or what, do we have to do as someone else does somewhere?” He asked a journalist on one of the Russian TV channels.
“Well, probably not, because if at such a level someone wants to falsify something there, to cheat someone, it's not difficult to do it. You can show this injection, but in fact, inject saline, anything you like, kefir, some kind of orange juice. Just kidding, of course, just vitamins. Well, this is not serious, in my opinion, ”Putin added."