Ukraine president's dinner poisoned with 'Agent Orange' giving him agonising pustules
dailystar.co.ukRussia has held ambitions to regain power over Ukraine since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. Things came to an ugly head in 2004 with the poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko, who opposed pro-Russian politician Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine’s presidential elections.
That year's elections were hugely controversial with allegations of electoral fraud and voter intimidation.Yanukovych was initially declared the winner against former Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko, before a Supreme Court decision reversed the result of the vote.But the most shocking story from that bitter and often violent contest was the hospitalisation of Yushchenko for what doctors initially thought was pancreatitis.In the run-up to the election, Yushchenko had dinner with three men from Ukraine’s security services. “When I arrived home,” he recalled, “I kissed my wife and the first thing she said was ‘your lips taste metallic’.”He describes how on the second or third day after the diner “my body started swelling, my head grew in size dramatically,” before he started from suffering from “inflammation and pus forming all over my body”.Yushchenko’s face became massively bloated and disfigured with pockmarks, which Professor John Henry, a toxicologist at St Mary's Hospital in London, said were signs of dioxin poisoning.
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