Anastasiia Berezovska, a Ukrainian woman wanted for allegedly planting the parcel bomb targeting Ukranian oligarch Vadym Ermolaev last month, was found shot dead near Kyiv

Europe-wide manhunt launched for ‘armed and dangerous’ Berezovska, 39, a Ukrainian national who speaks German, after she was identified as the prime suspect by Interpol 

Berezovska who resides in Germany, escaped Monaco traveling to Italy, Germany and then back Kyiv

She was facing charges of Charged with attempted murder, placing an explosive device in a public place with criminal intent, and criminal conspiracy

Two male suspects ‘A Ukrainian military intelligence officer who has confessed, and a former cop, have been charged in Berezovska’s murder

Ukrainian investigators honed in on suspects after discovering they had been in contact and were transferring funds to Berezovska’s bank accounts and crypto wallets

Interpol on Friday released this image and named Anastasiia Berezovska as the bucket hat-wearing suspect in the Monaco bombing investigation.The fugitive suspect fled Monaco via Italy and Germany back to Ukraine. On Tuesday Ukraine prosecutors revealed she’d been shot dead near Kyiv

Anastasiia Berezovska, a Ukrainian woman wanted for allegedly planting the parcel bomb injuring multi-millionaire Vadym Ermolaev last month, was found dead near Kyiv authorities announced Tuesday..
Prosecutors in Ukrainian revealed that the main suspect was found shot dead, with a Ukrainian intelligence officer and former law enforcement official in custody for her murder.
Interpol previously named 39-year-old Anastasiia Berezovska, who was born in Ukraine and recently resided in Germany as the main suspect in last week’s parcel bomb detonation in the principality of Monaco.
Berezovska’s body was found with gunshot wounds to the head and pistol casings, according to police and the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office.

A parcel bomb detonated at the entrance of the upscale apartment building in Monaco on June 29, injuring three members of a family. Interpol named the suspected bomber as Anastasiia Berezovska, a Ukranian woman residing in Germany

Ukrainian authorities also said they detained two men on suspicion of murdering Berezovska “by prior conspiracy.”
One of the men,a current employee of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate, allegedly admitted to the murder of Berezovska, claimed that the second suspect, who is a former police officer, was an accomplice according to the report.
Later on Tuesday, the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office announced that the two detained individuals were indicted “in the intentional murder” of Berezovska.
“They are charged with intentional murder committed by a group of persons and with prior conspiracy,” the office added.

Blood-stained torture chamber with axes and hammers found in the basement of the home of the ex-cop implicated in the shooting death of Anastasiia Berezovska, the female suspect in the Monaco bombing

Police across Europe had been hunting for 39-year-old Berezovska, described as ‘armed and dangerous’, a Ukrainian national who speaks German, after she was identified as the prime suspect in a Red Notice by Interpol.
Berezovska, who fled Monaco by traveling to Italy, Germany and then Kyiv, is wanted in the Mediterranean principality on charges of attempted murder, placing an explosive device in a public place with criminal intent, and criminal conspiracy.
Authorities allegedly honed in on the suspects when they discovered that the former cop and spy were transferring funds to Berezovska’s bank accounts and crypto wallets, leading investigators to treat them as ‘individuals potentially involved in the attempted murder in Monaco’, prosecutors said.
During a search of the former law enforcement officer’s residence, investigators also discovered a basement that resembled a torture chamber, the country’s security service (SBU) has claimed. 
Footage of the findings shows a dingy basement dungeon considered a torture chamber, complete with weapons, bottles of liquid and bloodstains splattered across the floor.

Footage shows weapons, bottles of liquid and bloodstains splattered across the floor of basement dungeon

Ukrainian prosecutors alleged that after returning to Kyiv on July 1, Berezovska ‘communicated with her family and two men’.|’The first is a former employee of law enforcement agencies, the second an active employee of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (HUR MOU).
‘Possessing information that both men had repeatedly made transfers to Berezovska’s crypto and bank accounts, the investigation examined them as persons possibly involved in the attempted murder in Monaco.
‘Urgent investigative actions were carried out, during which the active employee of the HUR MOU reported the murder of Berezovska, which he committed together with the other suspect.
‘The latter reported that he had not informed his leadership about his contacts with Berezovska, transfers of funds to her, or any other of his actions, and had acted on his own initiative.
‘Also, during a search of the residence of the former law enforcement employee, a basement room resembling a torture chamber was found.’
Both suspects have been detained on suspicion of committing murder by prior conspiracy of a group of persons.
‘Based on the testimony of one of the accomplices, an investigative experiment was conducted, and the body of Berezovska was found with gunshot wounds to the head and pistol cartridge casings.’
The target of the bombing Vadym Ermolaev, 58, a Property developer named by Forbes magazine in 2020 as the 39th richest Ukrainian, estimated worth $230million, was sanctioned by Kyiv since 2023 over interests in wine and alcohol in Russia-occupied Crimea.

Ukrainian authorities arrested two men after Anastasiia Berezovska was found dead. One of the suspects allegedly, a serving officer in Ukraine’s military intelligence service, has confessed that he shot the bombing suspect, while implicating the other as, a former cop as an accomplice

A search of the home of the the second suspect, a former police officer, revealed a blood splattered basement torture chamber – The identities of the suspects was not released

The body of Berezovska was discovered around 11.00pm on July 6, a week after the blast that maimed Ermolaev, his mistress Anna Nasobina, 46, and their 13-year-old son. 
Monaco’s deputy prosecutor Morgan Raymond said the suspect had been disguised as a man when she carried out the attack. 
Ermolaev’s mistress, London-based Ukrainian Anna Nasobina, 46, is still fighting for life, after her legs were amputated due to her injuries.
The couple’s son, Ariel, 13, also sustained minor wounds.
The oligarch – one of Ukraine’s richest men who had given up his citizenship in 2017, emerged from a coma after the blast
But it is believed Nasobina remains seriously ill.
Her son Ariel was able to tell police what he remembered from the bombing at the entrance to the residential block he shared with his mother.
Initially it was thought that Ermolaev’s wife, Anna Ermolaev, 56, had been wounded but she was not in the country at the time of the blast, and it is clear her husband was with Nasobina when the bomb exploded.
There were originally suspicions that the bombing could have been linked to a fraudulent network of call centers in Dnipro, Ukraine, allegedly used to carry out large-scale financial scams across Europe.
The Ermolaev family is alleged to have played a significant role in the scheme, with the oligarch’s name reportedly at the center of a sprawling pan-European investigation into clandestine call centers operating out of Ukraine. 
According to sources, the so-called ‘boiler room’ operations defrauded thousands of investors in Germany, Estonia and Ukraine of more than €100million (£86million) between 2019 and 2022, through fake cryptocurrency investment schemes.
The network also allegedly sold fraudulent divorce advice to unsuspecting victims.
Ukrainian law enforcement sources say that French investigators believe the murder attempt may have been orchestrated by members of a criminal network in retaliation.
While Ermolaev reportedly handled the financial side of the operation, it was his 35-year-old son, Artur, who allegedly ran the network.
Artur was arrested by Interpol in Cyprus at the end of 2025 following an Estonian arrest warrant.
After being extradited to Estonia, he was accused of creating a criminal organization engaged in telephone fraud. 
According to Estonian investigators, Artur, along with three other defendants, created fraudulent call centers in Ukraine that ‘offered fictitious investment opportunities’.
He was handed a suspended prison sentence, paid €8.5million, and left Estonia shortly afterwards, according to Meduza. He is now banned from entering Estonia.
Both father and son deny any wrongdoing, saying all of their business activities are above board.

Axes found in the home of the former law enforcement officer who shot the suspected female Monaco bomber dead

Dark staircase leading down to the blood-stained torture chamber in the basement at the home of ex-cop who shot Anastasiia Berezovska

The target of the terror attack Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Ermolaev, [photo], 58, was reportedly with his London-based mistress when the device detonated. It has been reported that he has emerged from a coma after the blast

Ermolaev’s partner Anna Nasobina, [photo], is listed in ‘serious condition’ after sustaining severe injuries in an explosion in Monaco on Monday. She’s reportedly fighting for her life after both legs were amputated  

Investigators said the suspect wearing a bucket hat who captured on CCTV footage fleeing the scene actually is a woman disguised as a man to commit the terror attack

A woman resembling Berezovska was filmed outside the ‘Sun’s Palace’ – a lavish apartment block owned by Ermolaev.
It was in the foyer, just before 9pm, that a dumped rucksack exploded after the woman triggered it using a mobile phone.
‘The prime suspect was identified by a witness,’ said an investigating source.
Footage from nearby surveillance cameras showed a figure wearing a black bucket hat and fleeing on foot across the border to France, where there are no checkpoints.
She headed into the town of Beausoleil, and made her way to Italy and then Germany, investigators believe.
‘She is armed and dangerous, and thought to be in the company of accomplices,’ said one source. ‘She should be approached with extreme caution.’
Cameras first picked up the suspect in the area on Monday morning, before she returned to place the bomb, according to the same security sources.She is thought to have been ‘around 12 meters away’ when she triggered the device, said one.
German police said Friday they had searched the home of a Ukrainian woman suspected of involvement in a bomb attack in Monaco which injured three people, including a Ukrainian-born businessman..
‘The woman being sought is currently on the run,’ they added in a statement.
Following a request from Monaco authorities, ‘the rented apartment of a 39-year-old Ukrainian woman in the Main-Taunus district was searched on Thursday’, police said.
Police in the central state of Hesse said that ‘in addition, a vehicle used by (the suspect) was searched and seized’, without giving further details.
Police also said that ‘evidence was secured and will be handed over to the Monaco authorities’, without giving further details.
The wounded boy has made a rapid recovery and is currently providing evidence to police and prosecutors.
‘He is telling them exactly what he saw, although clearly his memory is very blurred,’ said a security source.
‘It appears that his mother took the full force of the blast, while he suffered relatively minor burns and shrapnel injuries.’
Nasobina has been described in the past as Ermolaev’s common-law wife.
She is a Ukrainian national who comes from Ermolaev’s home city of Dnipro, having spent a lot of time in England.
Nasobina is listed as a director of Wycombe Square Investments LLP in London, but was frequently in Monaco, particularly during the summer, whereas Ermolaev’s wife, Anna Ermolaev, uses a high-security family villa in St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the nearby French Riviera resort town, which is the second most expensive residential location in the world, after Monaco.