UPDATE: Monaco Backpack Bomb Targeted Ukrainian Oligarch Sanctioned by Zelensky – Vadim Ermolaev, His Wife and Son Being Treated in a French Hospital

UPDATE: Monaco Backpack Bomb Targeted Ukrainian Oligarch Sanctioned by Zelensky – Vadim Ermolaev, His Wife and Son Being Treated in a French Hospital
June 30, 2026

Vadim Ermolaev – Screengrab Social Media/Telegram

Is the Ukraine war expanding throughout Europe?

The first terrorist attack in Monaco is developing to be more mysterious than previously thought.

The suspected victim, Vadim Ermolaev, was a Ukrainian oligarch sanctioned by Volodymyr Zelensky’s regime for his ties to Russia through his business in Crimea.

Given their habit of targeting enemies with bombs, it’s not a big stretch to imagine Kiev may well be behind the attack.

Assassination attempt on Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Yermolayev in Monaco

On the evening of June 29, a powerful explosion rocked a residential building near the French border.

Yermolayev himself was injured with burns and shrapnel wounds. A woman next to him, supposedly his wife,… pic.twitter.com/i7cjjJAmC0

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 30, 2026

The Telegraph reported:

“One of Ukraine’s richest men was injured after a bomb detonated in the lobby of a residential building in Monaco. Vadim Ermolaev, who is sanctioned by Kyiv, sustained life-threatening injuries from the explosion at around 9pm on Monday.

His partner is believed to have lost both feet in the blast.

The attacker was seen fleeing on foot to Beausoleil, France, after detonating a suspected parcel bomb inside the lobby of the property on Rue du Révérend Père Louis Frolla, according to Monaco’s prosecutor-general.”

JUST IN: Blast in Monaco injures at least 3 Ukrainians as suspect plants explosive and flees pic.twitter.com/gHh0AfnwEw

— Rapid Report (@RapidReport2025) June 29, 2026

A person believed to be the suspect was seen fleeing the scene on CCTV.

Police are searching for the suspect, who reportedly fled on foot toward Beausoleil, France.

IBT reported:

“Police in Monaco have launched a manhunt for the suspect. An aide to French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said authorities were working ‘to find the perpetrator, who has fled’. More than 100 police officers and emergency responders were sent to the scene following the explosion.

One witness recalled seeing a young boy lying on the ground covered in blood as someone rushed to help him. Emergency crews also treated four other people for shock and cuts caused by shattered glass from the blast.

[…] Christophe Mirmand, Monaco’s Minister of State, initially described the blast as ‘an attack’ before later referring to it as a ‘deliberate explosion’.”

The wife of sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Yermolayev lost both legs in an explosion in Monaco. The attack is likely linked to call centers in Dnipro, according to law enforcement sources.

In December 2023, Zelensky implemented the NSDC decision to impose personal… pic.twitter.com/gwHjzq5DUv

— MAKS 26 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) June 30, 2026