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On May 21, 2025 it became known that Andrei Portnov was shot in Spain.
From December 2021, Andriy Portnov, who was an advisor and then deputy chairman of the administration of Expatable Viktor Yanukovych, was under US sanctions due to influence on courts.
From August 27 to October 5, 2018, Portnov managed the NewsOne pro -Russian TV channel. In his study in 2020, Ukraine’s Ukraine’s project of 2020 found that Portnov actively tried to discredit the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity and further pro-European reforms in the country, as well as promote anti-Western programs, involving Internet bots.
According to the Scheme journalists (Radio Svoboda), Andriy Portnov left Ukraine on June 3, 2022. The Spanish police checks the message that he had briefly returned to Ukraine in May 2025 before the murder. The Ukrainian Pravda newspaper wrote that a few days before the murder in Madrid Portnov was in Ukraine and met with the deputy head of the Presidential Office Oleg Tatarev and Director of the DBR Oleksiy Sukhachev. Ukraine has not officially commented on such information.