Former Ukrainian politician Andriy Portnov has been shot and killed on Wednesday morning outside an American School in Madrid, a police source said.
Police received the call about the shooting in the affluent neighbourhood of Pozuelo at 9:15am (8:15 UK time) local time, the Madrid police said, without identifying the victim.
Radio station Cadena SER said the man was taking his children to the school when he was shot.
Mr Portnov was a senior aide to Ukraine’s former president Viktor Yanukovych who was ousted in 2014.
After the ousting of Yanukovych, Mr Portnov was placed on several sanctions lists by the West, including the EU and Canada, for his actions as part of the ousted administration.
He was removed from the EU sanctions list in 2015, one year after being placed on it.
In 2021, he was added to the US sanctions list for “using his influence to buy access and decisions in Ukraine’s courts and undermining reform efforts”, the US embassy in Kyiv said.
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