Ukraine Releases Footage Of Horrifying Terror Attack in Monaco

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Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office on July 17 released footage of the assassination attempt against Ukrainian businessman Vadim Yermolayev, which took place on June 29 in Monaco.

The perpetrators had reportedly installed a surveillance camera near the scene in advance to document the operation. The recording was later deleted, but investigators managed to recover it.

The footage shows a woman, believed to be 39-year-old Ukrainian national Anastasiya Berezovskaya, placing a black bag or backpack on the steps at the entrance to the businessman’s residence. Moments later, Yermolayev, his partner Anna Nasobina, and their 13-year-old son approach the spot. The woman glances back at them twice, makes a phone call — and a powerful explosion follows.

All three were injured in the blast. Nasobina underwent surgery to amputate both legs and required multiple blood transfusions. The boy was thrown several meters by the shockwave and suffered burns. Yermolayev himself sustained serious injuries.

At the request of Monaco police, Interpol issued an international wanted notice for Berezovskaya. She nonetheless returned to Ukraine on July 1. On July 6, her body was found in a forest outside Kyiv with four gunshot wounds. Former Ukrainian MP Igor Mosiychuk said she had been shot four times in the back of the head.

Two people have been detained in connection with her killing: an employee of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense, and a former law enforcement officer. The first has confessed to the killing; the second is alleged to have kept a torture room in his home.

Yermolayev has accused Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate of orchestrating the attack, calling it a cowardly act. According to media reports, he had been preparing to make revelations that could have proven damaging to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

This was not merely an assassination attempt on a businessman — it bore the hallmarks of a deliberate, meticulously planned operation of extreme brutality, one that injured not only its principal target but also an unarmed woman and a 13-year-old child. Whoever set the device did not hesitate to detonate it in the presence of a teenager, suggesting the entire family may have been the intended target.

The care taken to record the bombing is also consistent with the kind of after-action documentation associated with intelligence operations, where footage is typically produced as proof of task completion for higher-ranking officers and as material for later review — a detail that, if substantiated, would point away from an unplanned or amateur act.

Yermolayev has laid responsibility for the attack squarely on Kyiv, alleging that the country’s security services were behind it. He maintains that the evidence uncovered so far — including the killing of the suspected bomber and the involvement of a GUR employee in her murder — supports that conclusion.

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