On September 5, 2004, Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko attended a private dinner at a dacha outside Kyiv. By the next morning, he was violently ill. Within weeks, his face began to change. Swollen, gray-green, pockmarked, and covered in painful cysts, he looked almost unrecognizable. Doctors in Vienna later discovered the cause: TCDD dioxin, a deadly component of Agent Orange, at levels 50,000 times higher than normal—the second-highest ever recorded in a human. The poison rava