They shoot the former deputy, Proruso Andrii Portnov

Soon after his two daughters left at the prestigious American school in this quiet city on the outskirts of Madrid, Andrii Portnov, 51 -Year -Ukrainian deputy and collaborator to President YanukovichHe was shot. The aggressors, at least two men in sportswear, fled to the forest sector, which separates the school center from the rural house.

A source from the National Police said: “The victim received several shots when he was about to climb a vehicle.

The scene was registered on the anniversary of parents and the few students who still win in the car parking field on America Street at 9:15 hours (local) “was five or six shots”, one of the youths at the neighboring university residence, who contacted the emergency numbers, said to the local media.

Why was Portnovo “a calm person”?

Portnov was not the father of any father. Vice President of the Ukrainian presidential administration during the era of YanukovichHe accused him of corruption settlement by the US Treasury in 2021, which included it in his list that was punished for “using his impact to purchase access to Ukrainian courts and influence his decisions, as well as sabotage reform efforts”

After a field revolution in 2014, he fled to Russia first and then to Austria. He returned to Kyiv in 2019, but, according to the Ukrainian media, He managed to leave the country again in June 2022Although the departure of men from 18 to 60 years is valid after the Russian invasion.

Portnov was part of the “old guard” Who fled with Yanukovich in 2014. Its links with Russian -Ukrainian business networks were placed and passed through Austria near the circles, where financial and political interests converge. For Washington, it represented a symbol of the bribery system that tried to dismantle judicial reforms a decade ago.

The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service was briefly confirmed: “According to the available information, Portnov was shot,” said one of the high positions that I asked for not to be identified.

The investigation, which is assumed by the fifth group of murders in the Judicial Police Brigade in Madrid, is considered two lines: amending organized crime or killing political nature.

According to the initial reconstruction, Portnov returned to Mercedes E -Class while speaking on the phone. Shot on the absolute – half -covered, a blue double suit and a frog – in the back; One of the projectiles reached the neck. When the victim fell down, the aggressor approached and ended with a bullet in the head.

“Crime author has escaped from the place to Casa De Campo, a large forest area joining Madrid with Pozuelo,”

Police sources indicated The second individual can wake up with a motorcycle to facilitate escape. At noon, the security car collar besieged the victim and scientific police officers picked up hats while helicopters combed the following forest block.

Echoes of the distance war

The murder occurs at a time They follow the presence in Spain from both relevant characters to Kyiv and Moscow. In February, a precedent Russian dead was found to fight with Ukraine dead in a villa in Costa del Sol; The Spanish researchers attributed it to the Kremlin. Now, the appearance They resort to possible revenge against Ukraine against collaborators in Moscow, Or vice versa, in European lands.

Since the beginning of the invasion, “Kyiv has claimed or several deaths attributed to Russia and the occupied territories.” Madrid, with its broad neighborhood, and its separate residential societies, has become a temporary shelter for Oligarshin, former officials and opponents on both sides.

The American College sent a reassuring message to the parents: “There was gunfire at the entrance to the school … We understand that the victim is a family father.” The center activated the imprisonment protocol and commented to the yard.

The internal sources say that Portnov is separated from the mother of the girls, It is usually evaluated in the exclusive urbanization of ethics, North Madrid. He allowed his routine – the girls late – for gunmen to know the tables and customs, enhances the planned “box” thesis.

The Ukrainian embassy in Madrid did not make public comments, while Russian representation said it lacks information about the issue.

Complex

The information brigade will cooperate with murders to track potential geopolitical communications. The National Court, who specializes in terrorist crimes or against foreign interests, can assume the procedure if indicators appear on the state’s intervention.

Specialists remember that the solution to commission crimes requires the transit of projectilesCommunications and traffic cameras. In this case, escaping from a green tracking corridor. National Police and Civil Guard aircraft examine the roads and valleys in search of a motorcycle or neglected clothes.

The killing holds the exact balance of Spain, which has supported Kiev with weapons and humanitarian aid but avoids facing Moscow directly. Interior Minister Fernando Grande Marlaska condemned the “serious act of violence” and promised “to conduct a comprehensive investigation with the necessary international cooperation.”

DMR