The former Ukrainian official performed bullets outside the Madrid School

The authorities confirmed that the former Ukrainian official was shot dead outside an American school in the Spanish capital, Madrid.

Andrei Portnov, 51, had just left his children at school in the Bozulu de Alaaron area in the city.

Witnesses said that at least one of the unknown attackers fired several shots at the victim before he escaped into a wooded area in a nearby public park.

Portnov was a vicer Yanukovych deputy head and vice president. The expelled president of Russia was expelled in 2014 After months of protests.

Previously, he was a deputy in the ruling Yulia Timoshenko party.

He left Ukraine only after the revolution to return in 2019 after the election of Volodymyr Zelensky as president.

Then he left Ukraine again, and in 2021 he was punished by the US Treasury, who said that he was “widely known as the” court installer “who took steps to control judicial efforts and undermine reform efforts.

The European Union had earlier imposed sanctions on Portnov, but he defied this step in the court and won the case.

It was not clear who was behind the shooting that occurred at about 09:15 local time (07:15 GMT) on Wednesday, as it was reported that the children were still entering the school.

Police planes have searched drones and the area of ​​the region’s helicopter from an armed, according to the witnesses, who was a thin man in a blue track suit. Spanish reports indicated that the gunman may have at least one partner riding on a motorcycle.

A similar attack of Venice took place in 2018, when the Colombian drug dealers were shot outside the British Council School, a few kilometers away.

But the motive behind the Wednesday’s attack is not yet known. Emergency services at the scene can only confirm that Portnov has suffered several back and head wounds.

The Black Mercedes car was cordoned off in Portnov and the school was written to parents to confirm that all students at home were safe.

Although the intelligence services in Ukraine were linked to many killings in Russia and the occupied areas in Ukraine, a deadly attack in Spain in February last year is linked to the Russian slows.

The victim, a Russian helicopter pilot, was shot off near Alyante, after months of attention to Ukraine.

The authorities in Kiev said that they offered Maxim Cosminov’s protection in Ukraine, but it is believed that he moved to the southeastern coast of Spain under a fake identity.