Manhunt after Monaco bomb attack wounds Ukrainian tycoon in ‘attempted assassination’ | CNN

An assassination attempt against a Ukrainian-born tycoon has sparked a large manhunt across Monaco and France, with authorities saying three people were injured on Monday when a parcel bomb went off in a residential building in the wealthy city-state. CNN’s French affiliate BFMTV reported that the target of the explosion was businessman Vadym Yermolaiev who has left his home country and renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2019. Local authorities refused to identify the victims publicly, only saying that the adult male victim was a resident of Monaco since at least 2021. However, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that “according to local emergency services” the three people who were injured in the blast were members of “a family of Ukrainian origin.” Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne reported later on Tuesday that Yermolaiev’s wife said she was not present at the time of the blast and was cooperating with the authorities’ investigation. Monaco’s Prosecutor General Stéphane Thibault called the bombing an “attempted assassination” in a news conference on Tuesday, ruling out terrorism as the motive. Thibault said that an unidentified suspe