Monaco bomber who attacked Russia-linked oligarch ID’d as Ukrainian woman disguised as a man: Police

The fugitive behind the Monaco bomb attack that injured a sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch was identified Friday as a Ukrainian national who disguised herself as a man.

Anastasiaa Berezovska, 39, is accused of targeting Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolaiev when she detonated a makeshift bomb that went off at the entrance of his building in Monaco on Monday night.

Interpol issued a “red notice” for Berezovska’s arrest on charges of attempted murder and other offenses.

She has a snake-like tattoo on her arm that stretches from her shoulder to the elbow, Interpol says.

The Ukrainian native “is known for her links with organized crime,” Le Parisien reported Friday.

Berezovska was identified as the suspect — after cops initially believed a man, who was seen wearing a bucket hat, had carried out the attack.

“This person is likely to disguise themselves in such a way as to appear as a man,” according to a police memo seen by BFM.

She is believed to live in Frankfurt, Germany — some 600 miles from Vadym Yermolaiev’s apartment building where she allegedly planted the explosive device Monday.

But cops couldn’t arrest her as she wasn’t at her address.

Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolaiev was injured as was the woman he was with – Anna Nasobina. She lost her legs in the terror attack – the first of its kind to hit the principality. 

Nasobina, 46, was with her 13-year-old son when the bomb detonated.  

She was rushed to a Nice hospital where she is said to be fighting for her life.

As part of their probe, Monaco police arrested an unnamed foreign national Wednesday because “further checks were deemed necessary” before they were released. No further details have been released. 

Yermolaiev is a multi-millionaire living in Monaco who had sanctions slapped on him by Kyiv beginning in December 2023 — reportedly stemming from his alcohol business activity in Russian-occupied Crimea, France24 reported.

Yermolaiev was among the wealthiest tycoons in Ukraine who led in the fields of commercial real estate, manufacturing and agriculture.

He told Forbes Ukraine that he renounced his Ukrainian citizenship and became a citizen of Cyprus in 2017. 

Yermolaiev’s eldest son, Artur, was arrested in Cyprus last year and accused of organizing large-scale fraudulent call centers targeting Europeans, according to  the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper.   

Monaco is renowned as a haven for the rich and famous, with only about a fifth of its 38,000 population being made up of actual citizens of the principality. 

Prince Albert II described the attack as an “odious act.”

With Post wires