The fugitive being hunted for the Monaco bombing that injured a sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch and the woman he was with was identified Friday as a Ukrainian national who disguised herself as a man.

Anastasiaa Berezovska, 39, is accused of targeting Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolaiev, 58, when she detonated a makeshift bomb that went off at the entrance of his building in Monaco on Monday night.

Interpol issued a “red notice” for Berezovska’s arrest on charges of attempted murder, placing an explosive device in a public place with criminal intent, and criminal conspiracy.

Cops have identified the suspect behind the Monaco bomb attack as Anastasiia Berezovska, a Ukrainian national.
She has a snake-like tattoo on her arm that stretches from her shoulder to the elbow, Interpol says.

The Ukrainian native “is known for her links with organized crime,” Le Parisien reported.

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Berezovska was identified as the suspect Friday after cops initially believed a man, who was seen wearing a bucket hat, had carried out the attack.

“This person is likely to disguise themselves in such a way as to appear as a man,” according to a police memo seen by BFM.

CCTV footage of Anastasiia Berezovska walking down a sidewalk.INTERPOL/AFP via Getty Images
She is believed to live in Frankfurt, Germany — some 600 miles from Vadym Yermolaiev’s apartment building where she allegedly planted the explosive and used a remote control to detonate it. However, she was not home when cops searched her home.

The sophisticated plot suggests she didn’t act alone, officials said.

Berezovska used a car she had rented in Germany to flee the scene. She fled to the French-Italian border before making her way to Switzerland, according to the Italian news agency ANSA, before returning to Germany.

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The entrance of the building was covered in blood stains after the parcel bomb detonated.@Lucas_Mussio/X
She crossed the Italian border at Ventimiglia on the same day of the attack, sources told ANSA.

Yermolaiev was injured along was the woman he was with – Anna Nasobina — who lost her legs in the terror attack, the first of its kind to hit the principality.

Nasobina, 46, was with her 13-year-old son when the bomb detonated.

She was rushed to a Nice hospital where she is said to be fighting for her life.

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Vadym Yermolaiev was injured.vadymiermolaiev.info
The suspect reportedly sat on a bench waiting for the trio to return to the apartment before detonating the explosive, according to Monaco prosecutors.

As part of their investigation, Monaco police arrested an unnamed foreign national Wednesday because “further checks were deemed necessary” before they were released. No further details have been released.

Yermolaiev is a multi-millionaire living in Monaco who had sanctions slapped on him by Kyiv beginning in December 2023 — reportedly stemming from his alcohol business activity in Russian-occupied Crimea, France24 reported.

Debris seen after the bombing in Monaco.Syspeo/SIPA/Shutterstock
Yermolaiev was among the wealthiest tycoons in Ukraine who led in the fields of commercial real estate, manufacturing and agriculture.

He told Forbes Ukraine that he renounced his Ukrainian citizenship and became a citizen of Cyprus in 2017.

Yermolaiev’s eldest son, Artur, was arrested in Cyprus last year and accused of organizing large-scale fraudulent call centers targeting Europeans, according to the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper.

Monaco is renowned as a haven for the rich and famous, with only about a fifth of its 38,000 population being made up of actual citizens of the principality.

Prince Albert II described the attack as an “odious act.”

With Post wires