Business Insider news agency said, before the round of talks in Istanbul (Turkey) took place on March 29, members of the delegation Ukraine have been warned to avoid eating and drinking and to limit touching surfaces.
Specifically, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview on Ukrayina 24 TV channel: “I advise all participants in the negotiations with Russia They shouldn’t eat or drink anything, and it’s best for them to avoid touching surfaces.”
The reason why the Ukrainian side issued this warning is because recently some Western news agencies have reported that Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and some Ukrainian negotiators have had some symptoms similar to being hit. poison in early March.
However, when asked about the poisoning case, Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak – who is believed to be one of the victims in the incident, wrote on social media that he felt “fine.”
Mr Podolyak and Rustem Umerov, another member of the negotiating team, dismissed “rumors, speculations, conspiracy theories” and urged people not to believe “unverified information”.
At the meeting on March 29, Mr. Abramovich appeared in a completely healthy, normal state and the tycoon also had a short conversation with the President of the host country Turkey.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that billionaire Abramovich joined the negotiations as an unofficial member, and denied allegations and rumors that the businessman was “poisoned”.
Peskov also called such posts “part of the ongoing information war”.
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