An explosion at a residential building in Monaco injured Vadym Yermolaiev, his wife, and others. The attack may be linked to organized crime operating fraud call centres in Dnipro.

An explosion at a residential building in Monaco injured Vadym Yermolaiev, his wife, and others. The attack may be linked to organized crime operating fraud call centres in Dnipro.

A bomb ripped through the lobby of a residential building in Monaco on June 29, wounding three people including Vadym Yermolaiev.

The device was packed with bolts and buckshot.

Monaco’s head of government Christophe Mirmand said the incident had never occurred in the principality before.

Iermolaiev, his wife and their 13-year-old son were injured in an explosion in an apartment building in Monaco on June 29. The parents are both in critical condition, while the child is reportedly stable after sustaining non-life-threatening injuries.

Monaco's minister of state Christophe Mirmand told Agence-France Presse that the explosion was 'likely an attack.'

A parcel bomb explosion injured seven people, including Ukrainian businessman Vadym Iermolaiev and his family, in Monaco on June 29, 2026.

Authorities are treating the incident as a possible terrorist attack.