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Doctors at an Austrian clinic that treated Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko say he was poisoned in an attempt on his life during the recent election campaign, The Times newspaper reports.

“We are now sure that we can confirm which substance caused this illness,” Dr Nikolai Korpan, who supervised Yushchenko’s treatment at Vienna’s Rudolfinerhaus clinic, was quoted as saying in tomorrow’s edition of the newspaper.

“He received this substance from other people who had a specific aim,” he added.

Asked if the aim had been to kill Yushchenko, Korpan said: “Yes, of course.”