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Witnesses reported that Portnov was shot 鈥渟everal times鈥� in the head and body by more than one gunman when he was getting into a vehicle, police said. The assailants then fled on foot into a wooded area, police said.

Portnov is a former Ukrainian politician closely tied to Yanukovych, having served as deputy head of the presidential office from 2010 to 2014.

During Yanukovych鈥檚 presidency, Portnov was widely viewed as a pro-Russia political figure and was involved in drafting legislation aimed at persecuting participants of the 2014 revolution in Ukraine.

After fleeing Ukraine in 2014, Portnov reportedly lived in Russia in 2015 before relocating to Austria. It wasn鈥檛 immediately clear when he moved to Spain.

In 2018, Ukraine鈥檚 Security Service, or SBU, opened an investigation against him on suspicion of state treason, alleging his involvement in Russia鈥檚 illegal annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. The criminal case was closed in 2019.

In 2021, the United States imposed personal sanctions on Portnov, designating him as someone 鈥渞esponsible for or complicit in, or (who) has directly or indirectly engaged in, corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery.鈥�