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The Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the deputy Rostem Umerov and a second member of the Ukrainian delegation in the peace talks could be poisoned with

a toxic substance

(possibly organophosphate compounds) camouflaged in chocolates, during the meeting held with Russian negotiators in Kiev last March 3rd.


"The dose was not enough to kill any of the three,

although the direct target was probably Abramovich," Christo Grozev, the Russian investigator who certified the possible "poisoning" for the investigative journalism portal Bellingcat, told Times Radio. revealed the news Monday alongside

The Wall Street Journal.

"It could have been

a warning signal

directed at him by Moscow hardliners

not to jump on the dissident bandwagon,"

Grozev said.

"In the end, he decided to voluntarily mediate the role of honest broker for him. But other oligarchs have proclaimed a certain independence from the Kremlin and have criticized the war."

Abramovich

temporarily lost his sight

after the match in Kiev and reportedly suffered

from rashes on his face and hands.

The owner of Chelsea FC, linked since the 1990s to Vladimir Putin, even had to be hospitalized days later in Turkey, where on Tuesday he returned to participate, however, in the peace talks.

According to the

Financial Times,

sources close to President Volodimir Zelensky have confirmed that "people went

completely blind the day after"

the March 3 negotiations.

"We have not identified the substance nor do we know what is behind it, but it seems that

Roman Abramovich was the main target,"

acknowledge the same sources.

Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov on

Tuesday dismissed the news

about Abramovich's possible poisoning as

"information sabotage"

and "part of the information war."

The Ukrainian government kept a prudent distance, although the British Foreign Office assured that the news is "very worrying".

Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a specialist in chemical weapons, warned for his part that the alleged poisoning

"has all the traces of the Russian secret services"

.

"The negotiators could have been intoxicated with organophosphate compounds, which are the basis of nerve agents," Bretton-Gordon added.

"From what we saw in Salisbury (the Novichok poisoning of former spy Sergeu Skripal and his daughter Yulia),

the Russians are not as precise or as professional as one might expect

," Bretton-Gordon said.


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