According to the reports, the former pro-Russian politician, Andriy Portnov, killed outside the American school in Spain

A former Pro-Russian politician from Ukraine was a fatal shot on Wednesday morning outside his children’s school in the Spanish capital Madrid, according to the Reuters news agency and multiple Spanish media. Andriy Portnov was killed outside the American School of Madrid by a man -unidentified gun or armed men, according to reports.

“Several people shot him in the back and head and then fled to a wooded area,” Reuters said a source unidentified in the Spanish Ministry of Interior.

There was no immediate confirmation of the identity of the man killed by the National Police of Spain or other authorities, and there are no indications of a reason or any suspect that could have been identified. Witnesses told the Spanish media that at least a possible suspect was seen running towards a nearby wooded area.

According to the newspaper El Diario de España, citing witnesses, Portnov was shot just after leaving his children at the American school. The photos of the scene showed the body of a man lay motionless on the ground behind a Mercedes sedan.

Portnov was a high-level aid for former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich, a pro-ruso leader who was expelled during the revolution Euromaidan in 2014. That Oster brought the current government of Ukraine, backed by the West, and enraged Russia, which launched its first initial invasion of the Ukrainian territory that same year, culminating quickly in the noillateral Noilateral, which began its initial invasion of the Ukrainian territory that same year, culminating rapidly in the noilateral noilateral noilateral, which did not begin its initial invasion of the Ukrainian territory, culminating rapidly in the noilateral noilateral noilateral, which does not turn on its initial invasion of Ukrina’s invasion. Annexation of Crimea.

Portnov was a lawyer, and his political opponents in Ukraine had accused him of helping to build a legal framework to allow the former Government in kyiv to take energetic measures against protesters during the 2014 prodemocratic uprising.

Portnov continued to live in Ukraine after the 2014 revolution, despite his close links with the administration of Yanukovich, until he left the country in 2022, according to the Freedom Ukraine Network Network.

In 2021, Portnov was sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury under Magnitsky Law, an American law designed to address foreign persons involved in corruption and human rights abuses.

The United States government accused him of “cultivated extensive connections with the judicial and police apparatus of Ukraine through bribery”, and said he had been “accused in a credible way of using his influence to buy access and decisions in the courts of Ukraine and undermine reform efforts.”

“As of 2019, Portnov took measures to control the Ukrainian judiciary, influence the associated legislation, tried to place loyal officials in higher judicial positions and buy judicial decisions,” said the treasure.

There have been a series of crimes in Spain apparently related to the Russia-Ukraine War From Putin he ordered large -scale invasion in February 2022.

Afternoon that same year, A series of bomb attacks High profile directed institutions, including Ukrainian and American embassies in Madrid and the Spanish Ministry of Defense. In early 2024, Maxim Kuzminova Russian pilot who had defected Ukraine, was killed near Alicante, in southeastern Spain.

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