Roman Abramovich has been travelling for weeks as a direct spokesperson between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian aggressor Vladimir Putin. On March 3, a disturbing incident occurred during the peace negotiations, as msn.com reports.
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The poison attack
After negotiations involving Abramovich, another Russian negotiator and a mediator from the Ukrainian delegation, Rustem Umerov, all three suffered from poisoning symptoms.
Among other things, their skin had peeled off and their eyesight had been impaired. Abramovich himself had even lost his eyesight completely. It is not yet clear how the poisoning could have occurred. According to the New York Times, all three had only drunk water and eaten chocolate.
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‘Am I going to die?’
The next day, the negotiating team set off from Kyiv to Lviv and decided to contact the journalist and Bellingcat editor-in-chief Christo Grozev. He is a specialist in poisoning and had also investigated the poisoning of the Russian opposition member Alexei Navalny.
Abramovich had suffered so much from the symptoms that he is said to have asked Grozev if he would die. But Grozev and a doctor were able to calm Abramovich, who had been blinded for several hours.
This article was translated from Gentside DE.
