This is the moment a Ukrainian oligarch and his family were blown up in a bomb attack outside a luxury apartment in Monaco.
New footage released by the Ukrainian prosecutor general today shows the assassination attempt of property tycoon Vadym Yermolaiev, his mistress Anna Nasobina and their 13-year-old son on June 29.
The attacker, believed to be Ukrainian Anastasiia Berezovska, appears to be walking ahead of the family as they approach the Sun Palace apartment building.
A bomb packed with nuts and bolts was left inside a rucksack at the entrance hall to the building just seconds before the family were about to walk through the door.
The suspect, who matches the description of Berezovska, then calmly walks off and appears to be on the phone as a huge blast takes place behind her.
Ms Nasobina, 46, had her legs amputated following the explosion, while both her and Yermolaiev suffered severe shrapnel wounds and burns. Their son was also wounded.
The video was recorded on a surveillance camera close to the crime scene and was released today by Ukrainian prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko.
He said the ‘perpetrators’ had tried to delete the footage but specialist investigators had been able to restore it.
This is the moment a Ukrainian property tycoon and his family were blown up in a bomb attack outside a luxury apartment in Monaco
The suspect, believed to be Ukrainian Anastasiia Berezovska, was captured fleeing the scene on CCTV
Vadym Yermolaiev, who was targeted in a bombing in Monaco, has accused Kyiv ’s military intelligence agency of being responsible for the attack
A huge blast is captured on the footage before it cuts out
He said: ‘Urgent investigative and procedural actions are actively ongoing to obtain new evidence in the case of an attempted murder in the Principality of Monaco.
‘Thanks to the professional work of the specialists of the Security Service of Ukraine, one of the key pieces of evidence, which the suspects tried to destroy, was successfully restored.
‘This involves a video recording from the surveillance camera, which the perpetrators had previously installed near the crime scene to obtain confirmation of the order.
‘Despite the fact that this evidence was deleted, the specialists of the SBU were able to restore it.’
Ukrainian citizen Berezovska, was identified as the prime suspect for the parcel bomb by Interpol, who called the 39-year-old ‘armed and dangerous’.
Footage from nearby surveillance cameras showed her wearing a black bucket hat and fleeing on foot across the border to France, where there are no checkpoints.
She headed into the town of Beausoleil, and then made her way to Italy, investigators believe.
Berezovska was found dead near Kyiv on July 6. Investigators said she had been shot.
He did not provide evidence for the allegation, however.
The suspect calmly walks off before footage captured on a surveillance camera cuts out due to a huge blast
Interpol accused Anastasiia Berezovska, a 39-year-old woman from Ukraine, of detonating the bomb
Three Ukrainian nationals including an oligarch fleeing the war against Russia were seriously wounded when a bomb exploded in the centre of Monaco (Pictured: Sun’s Palace on Rue Révérend Père Louis Frolla, where the bomb detonated)
Vladyslav Reut, a current officer with Hur, was charged with her murder and appeared in court last week alongside Vitalii Zhykovych, his co-defendant.
Zhykovych worked until recently for Kyiv’s SBU security service.
Both men have denied guilt.
While Reut initially admitted to killing Berezovska, he later retracted his confession and blamed Zhykovych, whose lawyer denied the allegation.
Yermolaiev today accused Kyiv’s military intelligence agency of being responsible for the attack.
‘Based on the investigative evidence available to us, we have no doubt that serving officers of the main intelligence directorate of the ministry of defence of Ukraine, commonly known as Hur, were directly involved in this attempted assassination,’ Yermolaiev said in a statement released by his lawyers.
Now, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will likely face questions from Western allies over the alleged involvement of a serving Hur officer in the killing of the prime suspect in the Monaco bombing.
Yermolaiev, a property developer named by Forbes magazine in 2020 as the 39th richest Ukrainian, has a fortune of USD 230million (GBP 172million).
Anna Nasobina, his mistress, is understood to have lost both legs in the explosion
Vladyslav Reut appeared in a Kyiv court last week over the murder of Anastasiia Berezovska
Kyiv has sanctioned him since 2023 over interests in wine and alcohol in Russia-occupied Crimea.
He described how Nasobina had suffered ‘catastrophic and irreversible injuries’ while their son sustained burns, fractures and other serious injuries.
‘I remain in intensive care and am only now beginning the long process of recovery,’ he added.
‘This was not a warning. It was an attempt to kill not only me, but my family as well.’
The explosion was so powerful that it tore through steel railings and destroyed stone steps outside their property, he said.
Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Hur, denied Yermolaiev’s allegations, which he said were ‘subjective political statements’ that he said would damage the investigation into the bombing.
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