A dead body has been identified as belonging to the main suspect in last week’s Monaco bomb attack.
Anastasiia Berezovska, 39, was found with gunshot wounds to the head, according to the Ukrainian security service (SBU).
In Monaco, local media reported that European Union-sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Yermolaiev, his partner, and his 13-year-old son had been targeted, with two sets of “serious” injuries arising from the parcel bomb blast.
Berezovska, allegedly disguised using fishing headgear so as to resemble a man while dropping off the bomb, fled Monaco in a hire car and was later spotted in Italy and Germany. She arrived in Ukraine two days after the July 1st attack. Since the discovery of her corpse two people—including a current officer within Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence—have been detained on suspicion of murder.
UPDATE: At a Kyiv custody hearing on Thursday, July 9th, suspected shooter Vladyslav Reut (who initially led investigators to Berezovska’s woodland shallow grave in the woods)—”categorically denied” killing her, instead blaming his alleged accomplice.
Yermolaiev—who renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2019—has been facing sanctions imposed by Kyiv since 2023. Being a Cypriot citizen living in Monaco appears to have done little to cut down his enmity with his home country. In contrast, Berezovska appears to have angered shadowy forces in Ukraine—whether for attempting the parcel bombing or having failed to kill its intended target.
