The Times of London reports on Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s rough time acting as envoy between Ukraine and Russian leadership. Having already been poisoned earlier this month during talks – even going blind for a few hours afterward – Abramovich returned to Moscow from another round in Kyiv with a handwritten note from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. “Tell him I will thrash them,” was Putin’s immediate response to Abramovich.