Who poisoned Yushchenko? Medical experts have confirmed that Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine?s opposition leader, was poisoned in an attempt on his life during election campaigning, the doctor who supervised his treatment at an Austrian clinic said yesterday.
Doctors at Vienna?s exclusive Rudolfinerhaus clinic are within days of identifying the substance that left Mr Yushchenko?s face disfigured with cysts and lesions, Nikolai Korpan told The Times in a telephone interview.
Specialists in Britain, the United States and France had helped to establish that it was a biological agent, a chemical agent or, most likely, a rare poison that struck him down in the run-up to the presidential election, he said
