Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and Ukrainian peace negotiators were victims of suspected chemical substance toxic condition at peace talks in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv earlier this month , according to theWall Street Journal .
Abramovich , another Russian entrepreneur , and Ukraine ’s MP Rustem Umerov fell sick after a round of negotiations on the afternoon of March 3 . The group reportedly suffered from crimson eyes , irritating tearing , and peel off skin on their face and hand .
As perBellingcat , the leading hypothesis is that the trio were victims of an " undefined chemical weapon . ” Chemical arm experts and doctors have said the symptoms were most reproducible with stochastic variable of porphyrin , organophosphate , or bicyclic substances . Investigators also consider whether microwave irradiation was involve , but this appear to be less probable .
Abramovich has been attending various ataraxis talks in Moscow , Belarus , Kyiv , and other venues after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy advised President Joe Biden to hold off sanctions on him as he may prove a worthful go - between in facilitating peace negotiation , asper the WSJ .
Ukraine ’s foreign minister hasreportedlysince advised his workfellow attend negotiation with Russia to not eat or drink anything at the venues .
The three mass consumed only chocolate and water in the hours before the symptoms seem . A fourth phallus of the squad who also consume these did not know symptom .
Abramovich , the owner of British Premier League football game club Chelsea FC , and others involved in the incident have since recovered and their lives are n’t in peril .
“ I ’m fine , ” Umerovtweetedon March 28 after newsworthiness of the suspect poisoning broke .
“ This is my reply to all the yellow news spreading around . Please do not trust any unverified selective information . We have an informational war ongoing as well . Stay dependable . Slava Ukraini ! ”
The surmise intoxication has been blamed on Russian hardliners who wanted to interrupt the serenity talks , although this has not been confirmed . Russia does , however , have a foresighted chronicle of using poisoning as a weapon against its political opponents . In tardy 2004 , soon - to - be Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko was poison with hazardous amounts of TCDD , the most potent dioxin and a contamination in Agent Orange , leaving him withpermanent pit to his cheek . In 2018 , Sergei Skripal , a former Russian military officer and double agent for the British intelligence information agencies , and his daughter , Yulia Skripal , were poisonedin the English metropolis of Salisbury with Novichok nerve agentive role .
A fatal attack occurred on British grease in 2006 when former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service ( FSB ) , Alexander Litvinenko , died of radioactivity poisoningafter being drug with polonium-210 at a London hotel . More of late , in 2020 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was the dupe of attempted poisoning when Novichok wasapplied to the waistband of his boxer shorts . He outlive the assassination try after the plane he was on when he was taken ill made an emergency landing and he got handling .
