Overview
- Ukrainian prosecutors said a Kyiv court on July 9 ordered Vladyslav Reut, a serving military intelligence officer, and Vitalii Zhykovych, a former law‑enforcement officer, held in pretrial detention without bail on charges of premeditated murder.
- Investigators reported that the body of 39-year-old Anastasiia Berezovska was found with gunshot wounds to the head and pistol cartridges nearby, and that one suspect initially led police to her grave before retracting a confession in court.
- Berezovska had been named by Interpol and sought by Monaco over a June 29 parcel bomb that seriously wounded Ukrainian‑born businessman Vadym Yermolaiev and two family members, and she returned to Ukraine on July 1 by bus from Poland, prosecutors said.
- Authorities say repeated cryptocurrency and bank transfers tied the two detained men to Berezovska and that forensic evidence from the scene and international evidence‑sharing with Monaco, France and Germany are under active review.
- Prosecutors stress motive for the Monaco attack and Berezovska’s killing remains unestablished, and the case raises political and security sensitivities because one suspect is a serving intelligence officer and the probe spans several countries.