A mesh of political influence, money and power surrounds Madrid murder of former top Ukrainian official

A mesh of political influence, money and power surrounds Madrid murder of former top Ukrainian official

The life of Ukrainian lawyer Andrii Portnov in Madrid was short and ended with the five bullets in the back that he received Wednesday at the gates of his children’s school in the Spanish capital. Portnov wielded significant influence in Ukraine, where he was an advisor to the former anti-European and pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych. He settled in a mansion in the luxury residential area of La Moraleja with his family after leaving Kyiv in June 2022, when he was 48 years old. That is, he crossed the border four months after the Russian invasion began, and when theoretically there were already travel restrictions in place for men of military age under martial law.

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