On Thursday, the Russian police found the inventor of a vaccine"Sputnik" The anti-coronavirus, Andrei Potykov, was killed in his apartment, in Moscow, according to a magazine "Newsweek" American. The Russian authorities said that the crime was criminal, while local media revealed that the man had died, after an argument with a person who tried to infiltrate his apartment, which is located in central Moscow.
Newsweek reported that the Russian virologist was found dead on Thursday morning.
And Butikov, one of the 18 scientists who developed the Sputnik vaccine that was offered to Russian citizens during the Corona epidemic.
The Russian Investigative Committee (ICR) opened an investigation to find out the circumstances of the crime, while the local press said that a 29-year-old man strangled the scientist with a belt during a dispute between them before fleeing.
Not yet known all the merits of the case, while the security authorities did not issue any statement confirming the identity of the killer or the reasons that led to the killing.
