INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A former Ukrainian lawmaker and aide to ex-President Viktor Yanukovych was shot dead near Madrid on Wednesday, a Spanish police source told
The attack took place near a private American school.Portnov served as a lawmaker in the 2000s and later as deputy head of the presidential
administration under Yanukovych, a pro-Kremlin leader who fled to Russia in 2014 after a deadly crackdown on anti-government
of President Volodymyr Zelensky.The United States sanctioned Portnov in 2021 for alleged corruption, accusing him of leveraging his
flee Ukraine again in 2022, despite a wartime ban on military-aged men leaving the country.
