{"id":15305,"date":"2026-07-10T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/15305\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:07:20","slug":"ukrainian-court-detains-alleged-killers-of-monaco-bomb-attack-suspect-crime-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/15305\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian court detains alleged killers of Monaco bomb attack suspect | Crime News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motives for the killing of Anastasiia Berezovska remain unclear as the unfolding saga grips both countries.<\/p>\n

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Published On 10 Jul 202610 Jul 2026<\/p>\n

A Ukrainian court has detained two men accused of killing a woman wanted for the attempted assassination of a multimillionaire in Monaco.<\/p>\n

The murky saga has rocked Ukraine and drawn widespread attention as motives for the attempted murder and killing of the alleged suspect remain unclear.<\/p>\n

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In a Thursday statement, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General\u2019s Office said a Kyiv court ordered that the two men \u2013 a serving and decorated officer in Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence agency (GUR) and a former law enforcement officer \u2013 be held without bail.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Ukrainian authorities reported finding the body of 39-year-old Ukrainian Anastasiia Berezovska with gunshot wounds to the head. Cartridges were also found nearby.<\/p>\n

Berezovska was last week named by Interpol<\/a> as a key suspect in a June 29 bomb attack<\/a> on Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolaiev that left him, his son and partner seriously wounded.<\/p>\n

The powerful explosion occurred in the evening and rocked a residential building in Monaco on the border with France.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised on Thursday night to reveal \u201cadditional relevant reports\u201d on the case soon.<\/p>\n

Unclear motives<\/p>\n

It is unclear why the explosion targeted Yermolaiev, a property mogul who has been sanctioned by Ukraine since 2023 for continuing to do business in Russian-occupied Crimea.<\/p>\n

The businessman, who has renounced his Ukrainian citizenship for Cypriot nationality, has not lived in Ukraine since Russia\u2019s invasion, according to local media.<\/p>\n

Monaco authorities had charged Berezovska with attempted murder, placing an explosive device in public with criminal intent, and criminal conspiracy in connection with the bombing.<\/p>\n

In court on Thursday, the prosecutor revealed Berezovska arrived in Ukraine by bus from Poland two days after the Monaco blast.<\/p>\n

Investigators used cryptocurrency transfers to trace her to her two suspected killers.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, suspected intelligence officer Vladyslav Reut confessed to shooting Berezovska and led investigators to her grave.<\/p>\n

However, on Thursday, he retracted an earlier confession and accused co-defendant Vitalli Zhykovych of firing the shots that killed Berezovska, according to Ukrainian media, citing court proceedings. The officer said he had made earlier confessions out of fear.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say motives are still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motives for the killing of Anastasiia Berezovska remain unclear as the unfolding saga grips both countries. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[551,30,6495,5544,213,5208,82,26],"class_list":["post-15305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-crime","tag-europe","tag-gun-violence","tag-investigation","tag-military","tag-monaco","tag-news","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}