Yushchenko accused the authorities of poisoning him in an attempted "political murder," saying in an interview with the Associated Press that he was most likely poisoned at a Sept. 5 dinner with ...

A key example is former President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko, who suffered a near-fatal poisoning in 2004. His supporters concluded that Russian intelligence introduced the chemical dioxin into his ...

The International Monetary Fund is seeking assurances from Ukraine’s cabinet about next year’s budget, but President Viktor A. Yushchenko dissolved Parliament and, with it, the cabinet.

Yushchenko spoke to me about his experience with the Kremlin, China’s role in the conflict and new efforts to kick Moscow out of the U.N. Security Council.

Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko first claimed that he had been poisoned in September, when he was admitted to a clinic suffering from stomach pains. It was only slowly that his face ...

And we will definitely throw the invaders out of our land." Yushchenko was running for the office of President of Ukraine in 2004 against a pro-Russian candidate when he was poisoned by Russians.

Viktor Yushchenko's time as Ukraine's president has come back into the spotlight. Here's what to know about the former president who was poisoned.

The aim, naturally, was to kill me," Yushchenko said at the time. To this day, there is no definitive answer as to how and who poisoned Yushchenko, but many pointed to a dinner he had with Ukrainian ...

Yushchenko could have been poisoned with as little as a drop of relatively pure dioxin, which could have been synthesized in a lab. Because some isomers of dioxin can have half-lives longer than ...

Viktor Yushchenko (Wikimedia) Also in this series: The Zelensky era The Poroshenko era The Yanukovych era The Kuchma era The Kravchuk era The silhouette of the man onstage at Maidan Nezalezhnosti was ...

VIKTOR Yushchenko, the former Ukranian president who was poisoned with a toxic chemical has spoken about the effects and hit out at Russia. Yushchenko, 64, was poisoned in 2004 when he was campaign… ...

Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko has slammed Russia's 'medieval policies' while describing the horrifying effects of his 2004 poisoning. Yushchenko was poisoned when running against ...