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08.12.04, 15:19
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1393172,00.html
Doctors at the Austrian clinic that treated Ukraine’s opposition leader
confirm there was a plot to kill him
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. Doctors needed to examine Mr Yushchenko again at the clinic in Vienna
to confirm their diagnosis but were in no doubt that the substance was
administered deliberately, he said.
“This is no longer a question for discussion,” Dr Korpan said. “We are now
sure that we can confirm which substance caused this illness. He received
this substance from other people who had a specific aim.”
Asked if the aim had been to kill him, Dr Korpan said: “Yes, of course.”
