[Roman Abramovich, who has Israeli citizenship, reportedly flew from Tel Aviv to Moscow by private jet on 14 March, 11 days after the alleged incident in Kyiv. He is seen sitting at a table alongside Ibrahim Kalin - a spokesman for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Photo by=TURKISH TV)]

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has appeared at peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey. He’s seen talking to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is mediating in the talks in Istanbul, BBC reported. Reports surfaced hours earlier that Mr. Abramovich and two Ukrainian negotiators had shown poisoning symptoms after talks in early March.
 
Mr. Abramovich is known to have spent weeks in a mediation role, flying between Moscow and Kyiv. The Chelsea football club owner was said to have suffered sore eyes and peeling skin, but had now recovered, reports say. A Wall Street Journal report suggested he and the Ukrainian negotiators had been targeted by Russian hardliners in Kyiv on 3 March, but a Ukrainian presidential official later said the two Ukrainians were fine and one had said the story was false. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov poured scorn on the report on Tuesday as untrue and part of an "information war".
 
Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, however, told national TV hours before the talks that he had advised his colleagues attending negotiations with Russia not to eat or drink anything.33Russian state news agency Ria Novosti released a picture showing Mr. Abramovich talking to the Turkish president and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu at the meeting. The exact nature of Mr. Abramovich's role in the talks is unclear, although Ukrainian media said he’s there as a neutral party.