UKRAINIAN lawmakers reopened their investigation yesterday into Viktor Yushchenko's allegations that authorities tried to kill him, after doctors in Austria determined the presidential candidate had been poisoned by dioxin.

MPs in Ukraine’s parliament reopened their investigation today into opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko’s mysterious illness after doctors in Austria determined he had been poisoned by dioxin.

Supporters of Ukraine’s opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko expressed little surprise today over revelations from a hospital in Austria that he was poisoned.