Anastasiia Berezovska, the woman suspected of planting the parcel bomb that injured a sanctioned Ukrainian multi-millionaire in Monaco last month, has been found dead near Kyiv, Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) announced. Her body, discovered at approximately 11:00 pm on July 6, bore gunshot wounds to the head. She was 39 BBC.

Two men have since been detained on suspicion of her murder, one of them a serving officer in Ukraine's Ministry of Defence BBC. The SBU has not yet detailed a motive for the killing or explained how the suspects allegedly located Berezovska after weeks of international pursuit.

Her death closes, at least for now, an active manhunt that had spanned two continents. Berezovska had been named as the principal suspect in the June 29 bombing of an apartment building entrance hall in Monaco, an attack that reportedly wounded a Ukrainian tycoon with reported links to Russia, along with members of his family AP. Monegasque authorities and Interpol had been seeking her whereabouts since shortly after the blast.

According to investigators, Berezovska fled the scene on foot immediately after planting the device BBC, later making her way to Germany, where she was believed to be hiding Reuters. Interpol issued a Red Notice for her arrest on charges of attempted murder, noting she spoke German Reuters. It remains unclear when or how she returned to Ukraine, or whether she did so voluntarily.

The paper trail on Berezovska predates the bombing itself. Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office had published a summons for a "Berezovska O.I." — matching her patronymic initials — back in May, seeking a notification of suspicion and permission for a special pre-trial procedure GPU. That filing predates the Monaco attack by roughly six weeks, raising questions about whether Ukrainian authorities had already flagged her in connection with a separate matter before the parcel bomb was ever planted. The BBC and other outlets covering the case have not established a confirmed link between the May summons and the June bombing, and the SBU has not clarified the connection publicly.

The identity of the Monaco bombing target has not been officially confirmed by name in the reporting so far, though the tycoon is described consistently across accounts as a sanctioned Ukrainian businessman with reported Russia ties AP. The nature of any relationship between Berezovska and the target — personal, financial, or otherwise — has not been disclosed.

The involvement of a currently serving Ministry of Defence officer among the two men detained for her murder is the detail likely to draw the most scrutiny in Kyiv and beyond. It raises the immediate question of whether the killing was connected to state institutions, freelance actors with institutional access, or something entirely unrelated to the bombing itself. The SBU's statement, as reported, stops short of characterizing the murder as retaliation, silencing, or a settling of unrelated scores, and any of those interpretations remains speculative pending further disclosure.

Cases involving sanctioned Ukrainian businessmen with Russia-linked wealth have tended to draw parallel interest from Ukrainian security services, European law enforcement, and — inevitably — from those tracking the broader shadow war of assassinations, bombings, and intimidation that has run alongside the front lines since 2022. A parcel bomb detonated in a Western European principality known for tight security and low violent crime is, on its face, an unusual method and venue for a targeted attack, which is part of why the case drew disproportionate attention relative to the injuries reported.

What happens next will depend heavily on what Ukrainian prosecutors disclose about the two men now in custody, and whether Monegasque authorities — who retain jurisdiction over the original bombing — seek any form of cooperation or extradition process now that their principal suspect is dead. A dead suspect closes one avenue of accountability while opening others: motive, financing, and any wider network behind the attack now rest entirely on what investigators can establish through the murder case rather than through Berezovska herself.

For Monaco, the case leaves an attempted murder investigation with no living defendant. For Kyiv, it leaves a murder investigation involving one of its own defence personnel, at a moment when scrutiny of the ministry's internal discipline carries its own political weight. Both threads are now running in parallel, and neither is likely to close quickly.