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Ukrainian power broker shot dead in Spain

by 21/05/2025
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KYIV — Spanish police are investigating the death of Andrii Portnov, 51, a powerful Ukrainian former politician, who was living in Spain.

Portnov was shot dead by several unknown attackers on a street in Pozuelo de Alarcón, a town in the Madrid province of Spain, the Spanish Interior Ministry confirmed to POLITICO.

“Official sources confirm that the victim was shot several times as he was getting into a vehicle. Several people shot him in the back and head and then fled the scene into a wooded area,” the ministry’s press service said.

Portnov was one of the key functionaries of Ukraine’s pro-Russian fugitive former President Viktor Yanukovych. In 2021, he was sanctioned by the United States over allegations of high-profile corruption, particularly in the judiciary.

Portnov’s killing is not the first high-profile shooting in Spain related to Ukraine. Maxim Kuzminov, a Russian serviceman who drew plaudits for defecting to Kyiv after Russia’s invasion, was gunned down in Villajoyosa, close to Alicante, in 2024.

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