A person suspected of shooting a former Ukrainian politician in a wealthy suburb of Madrid in 2025 has been arrested in Heinsberg, in western Germany.
A person suspected of killing a former Ukrainian pro-Russian politician outside a wealthy suburb of Madrid in 2025 was arrested in Germany by Spanish and German police, Spain’s National Police said on Wednesday.
The suspect was arrested in Heinsberg, a German town close to the Dutch border, police said, without providing additional specifics of the arrest.
The politician, Andrii Portnov, was a senior aide to Viktor Yanukovych, a former Ukrainian president with close ties to Moscow.
Yanukovych was ousted in the 2014 Maidan revolution, where Ukrainians protested the president’s decision to pull Ukraine away from the European Union and closer to Russia. He fled Ukraine for Russia in 2014
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