Monaco issues international arrest warrant for Ukrainian woman after bomb attack on businessman
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Editor's note: This article was updated with information about the prime suspect once it became publicly known and confirmed.
Monaco issued an arrest warrant via Interpol on the evening of July 2 for a woman suspected of planting a bomb that injured Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Iermolaiev and his family.
Dnipro-born Iermolaiev featured among Ukraine's richest individuals until 2019, when he swapped his Ukrainian citizenship for a Cypriot passport. Since 2023, he has been sanctioned by Ukraine.
On the evening of June 29, an apartment building in Monaco was rocked by a major explosion, seriously injuring Iermolaiev and his partner Anna Nasobina, who Monaco-Matin reports has had both legs amputated.
Monaco issued an Interpol "red notice" — an international arrest warrant — for a 39-year-old Ukrainian woman named Anastasiia Berezovska, which appeared publicly on July 3.
She is allegedly located in Germany, and the Interpol notice says that she can speak German.
The motive for the attack remains unknown, but Monaco-Matin mentions that Iermolaiev's son, Artur, was arrested in Cyprus in December 2025 over links to scam call centers that defrauded some $114 million from victims.
The paper reports that Artur Iermolaiev was released on an 8.5 million euro ($9.7 million) bail.
President Volodymyr Zelensky imposed sanctions on Iermolaiev in 2023, subjecting the multimillionaire to asset freezes and requiring him to cease all financial operations in Ukraine for 10 years.
The French Riviera became a popular destination for wealthy Ukrainian families following Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. The Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda dubbed this group the "Monaco Battalion" in a video investigation published in August 2022. Iermolaiev was featured in the investigation.
