Declassified US intelligence documents: Putin is probably behind the poisoning of Yushchenko

Viktor Yushchenko, photo: UNIAN

The US intelligence agency has partially declassified documents that refer to the murders of political opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin by Russian special services. Among them are references to the poisoning of ex-president Viktor Yushchenko.

This is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the US National Intelligence report, which was partially declassified at the request of journalists.

The document lists a series of similar murders. Intelligence believes that Russian special services are involved in them, and Putin personally authorized everything.

The Kremlin is targeting «political and opposition leaders in key former Soviet republics who are considered a threat.» Such, according to the report, is the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, who in 2004 was poisoned almost fatally.

«... political and opposition leaders in key former Soviet republics who are considered a threat. A clear example is the former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, who in 2004 was poisoned to death. His supporters concluded that Russian intelligence had injected the chemical dioxin into his food when he was a presidential candidate advocating Ukraine's integration with the West,» the report says.

It will be recalled that earlier in Russia, the opposition politician Oleksii Navalnyi died in correctional colony №3 in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.