Ukrainian former official shot behind the dead outside the Madrid school

Former leading Ukrainian official was shot dead near the American School in the Spanish capital Madrid, the authorities confirmed.

51 -year -old Andrei Portnov has just threw his children into a school in the Posuel -de -dec -Alarcon.

At least one unspecified attacker fired several shots at the victim before fleeing the forest area in a nearby public park, witnesses said.

Portnov was a deputy and deputy head in the administration of Viktor Yanukovych, President pro -Russian succeeded in 2014 After months of protests.

He used to be a deputy at the Yulia Tymoshenko Guard Party.

He left Ukraine after the revolution to return only in 2019 after elected President Valodimir Zelensky.

He then left Ukraine again, and in 2021 he was sanctioned by the US Treasury, which stated that he was “widely known as a court retainer”, which took measures to control the judiciary and undermined the reform efforts.

Earlier, the European Union imposed sanctions on Portnava, but it disputed to move to court and won the case.

It is not clear who lagged behind the shooting, which took place at about 9:15 local time (07:15 GMT) on Wednesday, the children still went to school.

Police drones and helicopter were searched in the area for the militant, which, according to witnesses, was a thin man in a blue sports suit. Spanish reports believe that the militant may have had at least one accomplice who was traveling on a motorcycle.

A similar attack of weapons occurred in 2018, when the Colombian People’s Company was deadly shot near the British Council school a few kilometers.

But the motive of the attack on Wednesday is not yet known. The emergency services at the scene could only confirm that the ports had received several bullets in the back and head.

Black -Mercedes Portnava’s car was cordoned off and the school wrote to parents to confirm that all students inside were safe.

Despite the fact that the special services of Ukraine were connected with several murders in Russia and the occupied regions of Ukraine, in February last year it was associated with the death attack in Spain.

The victim, the Russian helicopter pilot, was shot dead near Alicante, months after defects in Ukraine.

Authorities in Kiev said they proposed to defend Maxim Kuzminov in Ukraine, but he was believed to have moved on the southeastern coast of Spain under a false person.