The start of the Russian military offensive in Ukraine, as President Vladimir Putin named it, has had indirect consequences practically everywhere in the world. Soon they began to arrive sanctions, by the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, to weaken the Russian economy. The main targets, the oligarchs.
One of them, Roman Abramovich, who until recently was the top manager of English Chelsea. The sanctions deprived him of all his assets and now the London outfit is up for sale. Soon his figure became important as mediator to achieve peace, in one of the first meetings between both parties to the conflict. And as revealed The Wall Street Journal, in one of them he could be poisoned.
Symptoms began in early morning from March 3 to 4, just a few days after the first round of negotiations took place. This is what the WSJ points out and confirms Bellingcat, a Russian website critical of the Kremlin. After the negotiations, they all spent the night in an apartment in kyiv, where they began to notice the first symptoms. From there they left for Lviv and then Poland, before arriving in Istanbul. During the meeting they only consumed water and chocolate. A fourth person, who consumed the same, had no symptoms.
they are not in danger
Both Abramovich and two other negotiators present at the negotiation have presented symptoms that make one suspect a possible poisoning, as indicated by the aforementioned US media. This is revealed by people familiar with the matter.
After their meeting in the Ukrainian capital, Abramovich and two Ukrainian negotiators exhibited symptoms such as red eyes, constant and painful tearing and peeling of the skin on the face and hands. Abramovich moved between Moscow, kyiv and other places where negotiations have taken place. The oligarch and the negotiators accuse the alleged attack on Moscow hardlinersindicating that they wanted to sabotage the negotiations to end the war.
Until now, it is unknown if the alleged attack was caused by a biological or chemical agent or some type of electromagnetic radiation attack. President Zelensky, who has met with Abramovich in recent weeks, was reportedly unaffected. Among those affected is also the Crimean Tatar lawmaker Rustem Umerov. All of them have improved and their lives are not in danger, according to information from the Wall Street Journal. The Ukrainian president’s spokesman had no news of a suspected poisoning.
It’s been three weeks now Downing Street announced the sanction of Abramovich, which kept all its UK assets frozen. A decision that the European Union also took, but that the United States has not yet followed, and it seems that finally it will not.