Ukrainian woman suspect in Monaco parcel bomb shot dead in Kyiv

Anastasiia Berezovska

Anastasiia Berezovska, is the 39-year-old Ukrainian woman suspected of planting the parcel bomb in Monaco on June 29, 2026. Unfortunately for her, she was found shot dead near Kyiv.

Some of you might not remember or know about the Monaco Bombing so I will provide the facts as we know them.

A shrapnel-packed explosive device detonated in the entrance hall of an apartment building in Monaco, seriously injuring Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolaiev (a sanctioned oligarch with reported Russia ties), his partner, and their son. Authorities described it as a targeted attack. Berezovska was seen on surveillance disguising herself as a man (heavily built, dark long-sleeved top, light shorts, black bucket hat). She fled the scene on foot, then by car to Germany.Monaco prosecutors and Interpol issued a Red Notice for her on charges including attempted murder, placing an explosive device in a public place with criminal intent, and criminal conspiracy. She was Ukrainian, spoke German, and had a tattoo. German police raided a flat linked to her.

Her body was discovered by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) and the Prosecutor General’s Office on July 6 - 7. She suffered from gunshot wounds to the head where pistol cartridges were on the ground nearby outside Kyiv.  She had been buried and the site with torture tools was also discovered.

A serving Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR/GUR) officer confessed to killing her, along with a former law enforcement officer, who also took the law into his own hands. The officer admitted he acted on his own initiative, without informing superiors, and had prior contacts with Berezovska (including money transfers). 

The two men were detained.

No confirmed motive or direct link has been publicly established between Berezovska’s killing and the Monaco bombing’s organizers. Ukrainian officials emphasize the intelligence officer acted independently. Speculation (unconfirmed in official statements) includes possible Ukrainian intelligence ties to the original attack, given Yermolaiev’s profile and the rapid cross-border developments.

The case raises questions about internal Ukrainian dynamics and risks to sanctioned figures abroad.The bombing obviously shocked Monaco, a hub for wealthy Ukrainians and Russians and fast cars.

This remains an active investigation with cross-border elements (Monaco, Ukraine, Germany, Interpol). 

Details could evolve as more evidence emerges. 

[Sources include: BBC, Reuters, CNN, AP.]

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NATO reacts as Russia fires nearly 400 drones at Ukraine

Russia launched nearly 400 drones and dozens of missiles across Ukraine overnight Monday, triggering NATO to scramble fighter jets in neighboring countries, according to reports.

The massive aerial assault killed at least four people and injured more than two dozen, with strikes hitting multiple regions including Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv, The Associated Press reported, citing Ukrainian officials.

Poland and Romania both scrambled fighter jets as Russian strikes approached NATO airspace, East2West reported, with Warsaw placing air defenses on the "highest state of readiness," Poland’s operational command said.

"Due to the activity of long-range Russian air forces conducting strikes on Ukrainian territory, Polish and allied air forces have begun operating in our airspace," Poland’s operational command said, according to East2West.

What one sees in these episodes is not mere battlefield friction but something deeper: the grinding insistence of one power upon the sovereignty of another, and the nervous vigilance it provokes among those who share a border with the conflict.

Hours earlier, two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled in fellow NATO state Romania as Russian drones attacked Ukraine near the River Danube, the outlet reported. The Danube forms part of the border between Ukraine and Romania.

Ukrainian military leaders said Russian forces have intensified attacks along the roughly 750-mile front line, with hundreds of assaults reported in recent days.

The Institute for the Study of War said the escalation suggests Moscow’s long-anticipated spring-summer offensive is now underway, according to The Associated Press.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched nearly 400 drones. Ukrainian officials later said most were intercepted or disrupted, although some were able to hit their targets, according to East2West.

Russia also launched 23 cruise missiles and seven ballistic missiles at Ukraine during the night, hitting at least 10 locations across the country, according to the Ukrainian air force.

Ukrainian civilians have endured relentless barrages since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago. U.S.-brokered talks between Moscow and Kyiv over the past year have brought no respite, with Russia rejecting Ukraine’s ceasefire offer.

The latest strikes came after Ukraine hit Russia’s largest Baltic port, Primorsk, in a pinpoint attack a day earlier, leaving the key export hub in flames, East2West reported.

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambassador to London, Andrey Kelin, threatened "dire" consequences over what he said was Ukraine’s use of Storm Shadow missiles, which this month hit and damaged a microelectronics plant in Russia’s Bryansk region.

"The British, without whose participation the use of Storm Shadow missiles is simply impossible, decided to remind everyone of both Ukraine and themselves," he said. "However, any action has consequences. And for everyone involved in the tragedy in Bryansk, the consequences will be dire."

One cannot help but note the symmetry here, or rather the absence of it. When Ukrainian forces strike at Russian infrastructure, the response is often framed as escalation, as though the original invasion itself were not the originating sin of the entire tragedy. Yet when Russian barrages rain down on Ukrainian cities, the language turns clinical, technical, almost detached, as if describing a weather event rather than a sustained campaign against a civilian population.

This is the moral asymmetry that has defined so much of the Western commentary on this war: a reluctance to call things by their proper names, lest the clarity prove inconvenient.

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Trump goes off on Zelenskyy for making "the worst statement" on the Ukraine-Russia War

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s prediction that an end to his country’s years-long war with Russia is “still very, very far away” received an angry rebuke from President Donald Trump on Monday after an explosive confrontation at the White House last week.

“This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer!” Trump exclaimed in a post to Truth Social, reacting to a report from the Associated Press.

Zelenskyy also appeared to reference British Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that Europe should do the “heavy lifting” to reach a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia while stressing that the effort “must” have support from the United States to succeed.

“It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelenskyy, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the U.S. – Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia,” an emphatic Trump added. “What are they thinking?”

Okay guys, let’s break this down with facts and logic, because the situation with Zelenskyy and Ukraine is a masterclass in diplomatic delusion. 

Over the weekend,  Zelenskyy hobnobbed with European leaders—probably sipping espresso and pontificating about solidarity—while insisting that Ukraine’s “relationship” with the United States would “continue.” This, mind you, comes right after a rare earth minerals deal got torpedoed following his Friday shouting match with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance. 

The topic? Ending the Ukraine-Russia war—a conflict where the U.S. has funneled tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to Kyiv like it’s some kind of geopolitical charity case.

Now, here’s where it gets spicy and dicey.

The argument hit fever pitch when Trump—correctly, I might add—told Zelenskyy he’s “gambling with World War III” by not bending over backwards to make peace with Russia. 

Zelenskyy’s response? A veiled threat that the U.S. would “experience the consequences” of this war down the line. Oh, really? That’s the gratitude we get for bankrolling this moron's war effort? America is not your personal ATM.

Then we’ve got Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo, laying it out plain as day. He said Zelenskyy “was there to strike some sort of make-believe bargain”—we’re talking $300 billion in reparations and security guarantees, folks—like he’s negotiating a fantasy football trade instead of a path to peace. 

Lutnick’s take? “And, eventually that just ran its course. And Donald Trump said, I can’t take this nonsense anymore, and made it crystal clear he’s the peacemaker. And if Zelenskyy’s not interested in peace, then he should go home and think about it.” 

Boom. Mic drop. Trump’s not here to play games—he’s the adult in the room, while Zelenskyy’s still scribbling in his dream journal.

So, what’s the takeaway? Zelenskyy’s betting on endless American largesse while thumbing his nose at the guy who’s actually trying to stop the world from imploding. Good luck with that, dude. 

Reality doesn’t negotiate with wishful thinking.

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Poland angry over Kyiv's sense of entitlement: Zelenskyy urges calm

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had to call for calm late Tuesday as tempers soared between diplomats from his country and Poland. 

On Tuesday, Kyiv summoned Warsaw's envoy following a top Polish official openly complaining that Ukraine needs to be more appreciative of the help Poland has given them after Russia's invasion last year. This was a similar complaint many American conservatives and perhaps a few liberals had with Ukraine and Zelenskyy. It seemed to many Americans that he was expecting us to do more in his war effort and this notion wasn't lost on Poland's envoy.

“We greatly appreciate the historical support of Poland, which together with us has become a real shield of Europe from sea to sea. And there cannot be a single crack in this shield,” Zelenskyy said. “We will not allow any political instants to spoil the relations between the Ukrainian and Polish peoples, and emotions should definitely cool down.” 

Poland has been one of Ukraine's greatest supporters after Russia's aggressive actions increased last year. However, more recently, Poland's relations with Kyiv have deteriorated by Warsaw's decision to extend a ban on some Ukrainian agricultural exports because they viewed this as a threat to the interests of their farmers.

The initial ban was mainly on grain, but is now shifting to soft fruit. Poland's farmers happen to be a key constituency in the upcoming Polish general elections, and nothing is more important to politicians, be they from Poland or the United States, than getting reelected. The low-price Ukrainian imports are hurting Polish farmers and politicians suddenly care.

The brewing disputes escalated Tuesday after Ukraine summoned the Polish ambassador to Kyiv over “unacceptable” comments made by a senior Polish official.

Marcin Przydacz [pronounced "Prrzzdaczrpzz"] head of Poland's international policy office said Kyiv ought to “start appreciating the role Poland has played for Ukraine in recent months and years”  causing Ukrainian heads to explode to the point they hauled in Warsaw's ambassador and prompted Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to hit back at Ukraine.

“The summoning of the Polish ambassador — a representative of the country that was the only one left in Kyiv on the day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — to the Ukrainian foreign ministry should never have happened,” Morawiecki said.

“Given the enormity of the support Poland has given Ukraine, such mistakes should not happen,” the prime minister added, verbally flipping ungrateful Ukraine the "bird."

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Another Russian oligarch went flying from his hotel room window

Defenestration sucks, especially if you're the one being defenestrated. Yet another Russian businesman Pavel Antov, was at a luxury hotel in India in celebration of his 66th birthday. Somehow, Antov fell from the bedroom window and died, like at least four other Russian oligarchs who spoke out against Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

Antov was found extremely dead at the scene and local police [who have a global reputation of easily being bribed with as little a bribe as a banana] said that they didn't see anything suspicious.

So when it isn't about flying without a pilot's license, it's about not saying anything to upset Putin like Antov's buddy and travel companion Vladimir Budanov did. He mysteriously died of a stroke in his hotel room.

Now you might want to know just who Pavel Antov was before he wasn't. 

Antov was a member of Putin's United Russia party and since 2018 was a deputy of a regional parliament a little over 90 miles east of Moscow.

Antov founded a food manufacturing company Soylent Green Vladimirski Standart before he unfortunately got involved in politics. He was one of the wealthiest deputies and politicians in 2019 as listed in Russia's version of Forbes Magazine "Rubles Galore."

Antov and his comrades arrived in Odisha state in mid-December and since it wasn't March, decided not to worry about the ides of December. [Let's face it, Antov was no Caesar. and refused to beware.] He and his comrades visited various sites such as starving cows and crowds of people looking to make a rupi or two, before heading to their hotel in Rayagada, India last week. 

He was booked at the Hotel Sai International where he should have reserved a first floor suite but decided to get a better view of the town when he somehow fell to his death. Some claim his death was a suicide due to the death of his friend Budanov, just days prior to his fall, but unless he and Budenov were more than just friends, I would believe the chances that Antov offed himself are as likely as Meghan Markel being altruistic.

The one statement that may have caused Antov to partake in an early departing flight from his hotel room window was what he said in June. He spoke about a missile strike on a residential street in the Shevchenkivski district of Kyiv: "It's extremely difficult to call all this anything but terror." Of course he said it in Russia and Putin, who understood it, was obviously not a happy dick tater.

To cover his butt, Antov retracted the comment he made in a WhatsApp message. Evidently, the end-to-end encryption was on the fritz and Putin heard what was said. Antov claimed, like CNN's Joy Reid, that someone else may have sent it because when all is said and done, he was "a supporter of the president and [my] country's patriot."

Regional Police Chief Rajesh Pandit told the AFP that "[A]ll possible angles regarding the deaths of the two Russians are being checked," and hotel staff along with CCTV footage is being checked along with detailed autopsies. But alas, nothing could be found to arouse suspicion of untoward pushing of Antov or pilling of Budanov.

Defenestration is a popular, cost-effective way of pushing the point that Putin's views are the safest bet. In September, Ravil Maganov, 67, also mysteriously fell from a hospital window in Moscow. Maganov was chief of a Russian oil giant.

So this was the year in which at least four executives linked to state-owned energy leviathan Gasprom [not the place you want to bring a date at the end of the school year] were found to have "committed suicide."

It was the three shots to the head of one of them that created a buzz around the Kremlin--just kidding. If that really happened, there would be no buzz.

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Ukraine begs Israel for arms while supporting UN criminalization of Israeli so-called "occupation"

Palestinian Authority envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour sits next to European Union
 representative at a meeting of the Special Politicaland Decolonization Committee 
at UN headquarters on Nov. 11, 2022.

Ukraine voted in favor of an anti-Zionist resolution at the United Nations last Friday and had the audacity to ask Israel to provide it with advanced weaponry to fight the Russian invasion. Now that's balls.

Israeli ambassador to Ukraine, Michael Brodsky, blasted Kyiv [figuratively, not literally] after the Ukrainian delegation to the U.N. voted in favor of a draft resolution in the General Assembly’s Special Political and Decolonization Committee backed by the Jew-hating Palestinian Authority’s delegation.

Brodsky took to Twitter shortly after the vote, calling Ukraine out over its U.N. vote, tweeing:

“Ukraine’s support of the UN resolution ‘Israeli Practices’, denying Jewish ties to Temple Mount and calling for ICJ advisory opinion is extremely disappointing. Supporting anti Israeli initiatives in the UN doesn’t help to build trust between Israel and Ukraine."

The resolution passed the committee 98 to 17 with 52 cowardly abstentions. It accused the Jewish State of denying Palestinian Arabs the right to self-determination, negated Israel's connection to its most holy site, the Temple Mount, and urged the oxymoronically-named International Court of Justice (IJC) to render an opinion against Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria.

The countries that voted with Israel in opposing the resolution were Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Liberia, Lithuania, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and the United States.

The United Kingdom and France abstained like the cowards they are.

All of the anti-Semitic Arab states, including Israel’s new allies Bahrain and UAE, approved the anti-Israel measure, along with both Ukraine and Russia, both of whom apparently deserve what they are getting.

Of the 5.8 million Israeli citizens with voting rights, 16 percent are from the Arab minority, and Arabs are clearly represented in Israel's knesset, or government. 

Fun Fact: the Palestinian Authority not only has no Jewish members representing anyone, Palestine has no Jews living there because they would be killed.

The draft resolution, breathlessly entitled “Israeli practices and settlement activities affecting the rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs of the occupied territories,” claims Israel has violated ‘Palestinian rights’ to self-determination “from its prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the holy city of Jerusalem, and from its adoption of related discriminatory legislation and measures.”

Actually, Israel has occupied Israel even before the Old Testament was written, then it documented their occupation thereafter. So who are the actual "occupiers?" Islam wasn't even around when the Jews lived in Israel.

So Ukraine can pack up and go to hell with itself thinking that Israel owes them anything.

It's always fun to watch countries, such as Saudi Arabia, that called for the destruction of the Jewish State when they are at risk of attack from other Islamic nations [think Iran] become buddies with Israel. 

The one bright spot is that the court's opinions are non-binding.

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Ukraine's support for the U.N. resolution coincidentally comes just as Kyiv continues to press Jerusalem to transfer the Iron Dome missile defense system and other weapons to Ukraine. 

What an incredible sense of entitlement President Camouflage Tee Shirt has.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government has thus far refused Israeli offers for a civilian missile alert warning system.

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Justin Trudeau shakes hands with Iranian terrorists: Canadians become impolite

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is either an oblivious idiot or he's a horrible human being--one or the other--because it didn't dawn on him that shaking hands with an Iranian scumbag terrorist was the wrong thing to do.

The leader of the cold world is facing impolite anger by his fellow countrymen after he was photographed shooting the breeze, shaking hands, and doing the "Obama Bow" to Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. The thing is, the kissing up came after the terrorist nation of Iran shot down a commercial airplane killing 57 Canadians.

Oops!

Last January Iran shot down a plane after they launched a series of missile attacks at two Iraqi military bases housing American troops. The Iranian response, a form of sword rattling, came after U.S. President Donald Trump blew away terrorist Quds Force general Qassem Soleimani, to the dismay of his fellow terrorists and the U.S. Democratic Party.

Soleimani was in Iran [where he was not supposed to be] trying to stir up anti-American sentiment and organize anti-American terror operations.

At first, Iran denied downing the airliner, but after United States and international intelligence organizations proved the downing was caused by a pair of surface-to-air missiles fired from inside Iran, they finally issued a statement taking responsibility. Of course, they blamed both missile launches on "human error," but that's highly doubtful as the Quds Force is not composed of actual humans.

More than 150 passengers perished in the attack which Iran called an "unforgivable mistake."

The U.S. Democratic Party forgave them along with Justin Trudeau, it seems.

There were 57 Canadians aboard the Ukrainian Airlines plane, headed to Kiev, Ukraine, where they planned to catch a connecting flight to Toronto, according to the BBC.

“The plane was bound for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, [aka Kiev] and many on board had a connecting flight to Toronto, Canada’s largest city and a transit hub,” the British outlet reported, identifying why so many Canadians were killed in the attack. “Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that, all told, 138 people on that flight were en route to Canada.”

At the time of the attack, Trudeau insisted that he would demand “closure, accountability, transparency and justice” from the Iranians. By justice he meant that he would force Zarif to tolerate his poor jokes and shake his hand.

However, last week, at a conference in Munich, Germany, Trudeau seemed to cozy up with the Iranian delegation, according to GlobalNews.ca, [mainly because he's a politician and a liar, but I repeat myself].

“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing criticism over new photographs showing him shaking hands with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif,” the outlet reported. “The meeting on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday quickly sparked criticism online given that Iran shot down a passenger plane last month near Tehran killing all 176 on board, including 57 Canadians. Since then, it has refused to hand over the black boxes recovered from the crash site.”

Trudeau, who has fallen under criticism for failing to treat President Trump with due respect, defended his congenial interaction with the Iranians when asked about it by reporters, even as Iranian state television reportedly played the handshake off as a sign of forgiveness.

“I made a promise to families in Canada to do everything I could to make sure that they get answers, that we have a full and complete investigation, that we understand exactly what happened,” Trudeau told reporters. “I went by to impress upon the foreign minister of Iran how important it is that we work together.” And he hoped that they could be friends.

Not everyone was impressed with Trudeau’s thoughtless behavior and abject stupidity.

“Not a good look to see PM Trudeau with smiling FM Zarif of Iran after Canadians killed at the hands of Iranian incompetence and malice on Ukrainian plane- not to mention the innocent Iranian protestors‘ killed,” one expert on Iranian-Canadian relations tweeted.

And, GlobalNews.ca reports, families of the plane crash victims are “furious.”

The Canadian delegation tried to wave off the controversy, suggesting that Trudeau was forceful in private meetings, demanding that Iran turn over the flight’s black boxes to international officials, but they offered no proof of Trudeau’s position and truth be told, Trudeau is a wuss and a former snowboard instructor.

Like every other leftist finger-pointer, Trudeau did have some harsh words for at least one person he holds responsible for the airplane being shot down: President Trump.

Back in January, the Andy Kaufman lookalike pinned Iran's "human error" squarely on Trump's shoulders, because whenever anything in any part of the world goes wrong, no matter who is at fault, they blame Trump. And normal people [those of us without Trump Derangement Syndrome] are tired of their bs.

“If there were no tensions, if there was no escalation recently in the region, those Canadians would be right now home with their families,” Trudeau said.

Soleimani deserved to die. He killed tens of thousands both directly and indirectly. Osama bin Laden also deserved to die for the same reason. The only difference in the reaction is due to who made the call. Anyone who is not in a coma knows that.


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