Ukraine prosecutor publishes dramatic video of Monaco attack

KYIV: Ukraine’s prosecutor general on Friday published a dramatic video of the June 29 parcel bomb attack in Monaco that wounded Ukrainian-born tycoon Vadym Yermolaiev, his partner and teenage son.
The video showed a person leaving a bag at an entrance to a luxury apartment complex, before a man in shorts, a woman in a light-blue dress and a teenager approached it and a blast rocked the entrance moments later.
The suspect in the bombing, Anastasiia Berezovska, 39, was shot dead by an active Ukrainian military intelligence officer and an accomplice, a former police officer, near Kyiv, Ukrainian investigators said last week.
The two men, who were both arrested, are also suspected of masterminding the Monaco attack and recruiting Berezovska to carry it out.
“It was possible to restore one of the key pieces of evidence that the suspects tried to destroy,” said Ukrainian prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko.
He added that the recording was made by a surveillance camera the suspects had installed to confirm the attack had been carried out as contracted.
The June 29 blast, detonated remotely in the lobby of the family’s apartment building, wounded all three.
Yermolaiev, 58, a wealthy businessman now holding Cypriot nationality, his partner and his 13-year-old son were taken to hospital with injuries of varying severity.
The bombing sent shockwaves through Monaco, a microstate near Nice in southern France that is a playground of the world’s ultra-rich. Prince Albert II has described the attack as a “heinous crime.”