Ukraine officials in Russia peace talks possibly poisoned

"Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and several Ukrainian officials were apparently poisoned while
negotiating an end to Moscow’s invasion at a meeting where they were only served water and chocolate, according to reports Monday.

Abramovich, who accepted a Ukrainian request to help deescalate the warfare, and at least two senior members involved in negotiations suffered from peeling skin on their faces and hands, constant and painful tearing, and red eyes following a meeting in Kyiv earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported.

“People became totally blind . . . the next day,” a source close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the newspaper. The suspected poisoning occurred after Abramovich and Umerov took part in the negotiations opposite another Russian businessman on March 3, according to Bellingcat." NYP