UNIAN: Ukraine’s former prosecutor general claims survived mercury poisoning By UNIAN. Published Feb. 1, 2020. Updated Feb. 1 at 10:48 am Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin speaks at a press conference in Kyiv on Nov. 2, 2015. Photo by Volodymyr Petrov Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin claims he survived mercury poisoning in September 2019. Read more here.