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BREAKING NEWS: Ukrainian authority officers killed a woman who set off a bomb in Monaco, a court heard today.
A serving Ukraine army intelligence agent and a former Kyiv security bureau officer took her to the woods, killed her with a gun, and buried the corpse, a court was told.
She was “disposable” after doing her job, one source was quoted as saying by the UK Guardian.
Other law enforcement authorities caught the two men and made them reveal where the body was buried.
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THE JOB SHE DID
The bomb she planted in Monaco hit a Ukrainian family – a man, woman and child – who had been sanctioned by the Ukraine government.
The Zelensky administration is expected to deny any knowledge of the current crimes.
But it looks awkward. The country’s government was widely acknowledged to be the most corrupt in Europe before the 2022 conflict caused a dramatic change of tune about Ukraine in western mainstream media.
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LONG, WINDING TALE
This whole murder mystery is a bizarre, winding tale.
In 2023, the Ukraine government imposed sanctions on a Ukrainian citizen named Vadym Iermolaiev, a wealthy businessman who ran an alcohol business in Crimea.
Crimea was taken back by Russia, but the man continued his trade and paid tax to the new rulers of the area, as he was obliged to do. This angered Zelensky’s government—who hit him with sanctions.
Iermolaiev felt this was unfair, and made donations to Ukraine’s military to show his loyalty. But he did give up his citizenship, Ukrainian media said.
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RUCKSACK BOMB
On June 29, a woman named Anastasia Berezovska left a rucksack outside a Monaco residential block. It blew up in the face of Iermolaiev, his partner, and their child, aged 13. The two adults were gravely injured, the child less so.
But the bomber’s image was caught on a security camera, and she was identified.
Anastasia Berezovska, 39, who sometimes disguised herself as a man, investigators said, drove away from the scene in a car with German registration plates, crossing into France, then Italy, and then reaching Ukraine on Wednesday 1 July.
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BODY FOUND
On Tuesday this week, investigators said Berezovska’s body had been found in a shallow grave in the woods near Kiev, the capital city.
One of the men accused, Vladyslav Reut, has just appeared in court, accused of her murder. He worked for army intelligence.
He said that it was his companion who actually killed the woman, naming him as a former Kyiv security bureau officer named Vitaliy Zhykovych.
The court hearing will continue.
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ALL VERY AWKWARD
The Ukrainian government will argue that the attack was to do with criminal matters, and there is no political angle.
But of course, that’s the whole issue when it comes to governments with high levels of corruption. That gap, all too often, is rather small.
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