Ex-Adviser to Yanukovych Shot Dead in Madrid Suburbs
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The body of Andriy Portnov, ex-adviser to former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, has been removed from the crime scene. The area remains cordoned off, with police still on-site, Sputnik correspondent reported. Earlier in the day, Spanish police confirmed to Sputnik that Portnov was shot dead on Wednesday morning outside a school in the city of Pozuelo de Alarcon near Madrid.”We did receive a report about his death. We have no information about the perpetrators yet,” the police said.Portnov was included in the Ukrainian database Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) as a “traitor to the motherland” in April 2015, according to the information on the Peacemaker website. He is accused of allegedly calling for murdering Ukrainian citizens and encroaching on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.The Ukrainian website Peacemaker is known for its scandalous posts, in which it reveals personal data of journalists and other citizens, labeling them “traitors to their homelands.”Later in the day, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large on the Kiev Regime’s War Crimes Rodion Miroshnik assumed that Portnov could have some information that was dangerous for Volodymyr Zelensky or someone from his entourage.”Portnov was an influential official in the Yanukovych era. He could well have had information from the ‘forgotten past’ that could ruin the ‘impeccable reputation’ of certain individuals in the current government. Or he could have had other information that was dangerous for someone from Zelenskyy’s circle or for himself,” Miroshnik said on Telegram.The assassination looks very much like an “extrajudicial execution,” he added.”It is hard to believe in the random nature of a murder with a control shot to the head, as well as the lack of connection with the Zelensky regime,” Miroshnik added.AnalysisKiev Killed Kirillov For Exposing West’s Hand, Dirty Money in Ukraine Biolab Scheme – Ex-CIA Officer18 December 2024, 08:22 GMTMeanwhile, Spanish newspaper 20minutos reported that Spanish investigators did not rule out a connection between Portnov’s murder and the conflict in Ukraine. There is, however, another line of enquiry, which links the murder to organized crime, the report said.