It is not a good time to be an oligarch. The entire free world is trying to remove every single multi-million dollar toy from their possession, and in one case, an oligarch believes a former friend of his was trying to kill him. 

Roman Abramovich has gone out of his way to work with Ukrainian leaders to try to broker some sort of peaceful end to the war. Because of that, Ukrainian President Zelensky has personally lobbied Joe Biden to go easy on him regarding personal sanctions of assets and money he is holding in banks.  On the flip side of this special attention one president is trying to get him, he and two Ukrainian negotiators were “blinded for several hours and had skin peel off their faces and hands” in a suspected poisoning attack. 

According to reports in the Wall Street Journal and other publications, Abramovich believes he was poisoned a few weeks ago after a meeting in Kyiv where he was acting as a peacemaker in the war. 

He reportedly was treated in a Turkish hospital after being blind for several hours. The peace talks where this suspected poisoning occurred happened weeks ago, but the news was not let out because of concern for the safety of the victims. 

Over the weekend, Abramovich was reportedly in Poland when Joe Biden was there to try to negotiate between Putin and the American President. 

The poisoning allegedly took place around March 3. The victims were all suffering from inflammation of their eyes and skin and had only consumed water and chocolate before being hit with the painful symptoms. 

The Kremlin admitted that Abramovich was part of the peace talks earlier this month. One chemical weapons expert said that the amount of poison used was intended to scare the victims and not kill them. 

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