The body of Anastasiia Berezovska, the 39-year-old Ukrainian woman suspected of carrying out the 29 June bombing in Monaco, was found late on 6 July in a rural area near Kyiv, Ukrainian authorities confirmed on Tuesday. The prosecutor general’s office stated she had been shot in the head, and spent pistol cartridges were recovered at the scene. Berezovska had been the subject of an Interpol Red Notice since 3 July, sought by Monegasque authorities for attempted murder, placing an explosive device in a public place, and criminal conspiracy.

That attack, which shook the principality, occurred when a remotely detonated parcel bomb left in a backpack at the entrance of a residential building wounded Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolaiev, his partner Anna Nasobina, and their 13-year-old son. Medical sources in Nice reported that Nasobina lost both legs, while Yermolaiev and the boy sustained serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators in Monaco said Berezovska, who had been living in Germany, fled on foot into France immediately after the blast and then travelled by rental car through Italy before returning to Ukraine on 1 July.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and the prosecutor general’s office announced the arrest of two men in connection with her killing: a current officer of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) of the Ministry of Defence, and a former law enforcement officer. The HUR officer confessed to murdering Berezovska together with the second suspect, according to the SBU, but claimed he had acted on his own initiative and had not informed his superiors about his contacts with her or the repeated transfers of funds to her cryptocurrency and bank accounts. During a search of the ex-officer’s home, investigators discovered a basement room that the SBU described as resembling a torture chamber; its precise link to the killing remains unclear.

Yermolaiev, a real-estate developer who renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2019 and now holds a Cypriot passport, has been under Ukrainian sanctions since 2023 for allegedly continuing alcohol-related business in Russian-occupied Crimea. French and Monegasque investigators have not ruled out a possible connection to Ukrainian state actors, but no official finding has been released. Ukrainian authorities say all evidence gathered has been shared with Monaco’s judicial services, and the investigation into both the bombing and the subsequent murder is ongoing, with efforts focused on identifying any additional organisers or accomplices.