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Clarification: Spain-Ukraine-Shooting story

POZUELO DE ALARCON, Spain (AP) — In a story published May. 21, 2025, The Associated Press reported that the mother of a child at the school said she knew the victim through the emigre community but did not know him well.
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Members of the judicial police at the scene after Andrii Portnov, an adviser to former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was shot, outside a school in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Paul White)

POZUELO DE ALARCON, Spain (AP) — In a story published May. 21, 2025, The Associated Press reported that the mother of a child at the school said she knew the victim through the emigre community but did not know him well. The story should have made clear that she said she knew someone with the same first name as the victim.

Suman Naishadham, Joseph Wilson And Illia Novikov, The Associated Press