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At the same time, he says that he does not understand the reasons for the story that happened.
The sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Yermolaiev, whom an attack was carried out on in June, and who previously in a public statement claimed that the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine was directly involved in the attack on him, told CNN that he is skeptical of any assumptions that the Ukrainian state could have officially ordered his murder.
“I can’t even imagine that something like this could be possible,” he told reporters.
According to him, GUR employee Vladyslav Reut, who was detained as an accomplice to the attack, was “a rotten apple” who acted independently for money. In his view, someone privately hired Reut and Zhikovich, relying on their experience in covert operations and assaults.
“Figuring out who ordered this is the main question today,” Yermolaiev added.
The businessman noted that he cannot imagine who could have ordered his murder: “I have never had enemies. I am not a confrontational person. I have always tried to avoid any sharp conflicts. I don’t understand the reasons.”
CNN decided to describe the full story of the Yermolaiev assassination and found that Anastasia Berezovska, the later killer-for-hire who was killed, sent her minor son to Ukraine a few weeks before the trip to Monaco.
She was able to meticulously plan the attack, and then escape across several borders to Ukraine even before the authorities realized they were looking for a woman, not a man.
She pursued Yermolaiev for some time, but one day wore her usual clothes, “exposing” her face and tattoo, which later allowed investigators to identify her.
On the meeting with accomplices already in Ukraine, Berezovska set off the same day when Monaco police announced suspicion of involvement of a Ukrainian in the organization of the attack. According to prosecutors, on the highway from Zhytomyr to Kyiv, she was picked up by a black BMW in which Vladyslav Reut and Vitaliy Zhikovich were likely riding.
“What exactly happened after Berezovska, Reut, and Zhikovich met on the highway is unclear — each of the two men expressed his own version of the story. But by the end of the day Berezovska was already dead,” the publication notes.
Thus, after Reut’s arrest, he initially confessed to shooting Berezovska on Zhikovich’s orders. Later, in court, he stated that Zhikovich pulled the trigger.
In a CNN interview, Yermolaiev said that he regards Berezovska as “a stupid, naive operative” who was “told that she was doing something important and grand.” According to him, the woman was killed so that she could not testify against others, since personally he does not believe that Berezovska monitored him for four months and organized it all by herself.
Recall that oligarch Vadym Yermolaiev with his family was blown up in Monaco 29 in June.
And in 6 July, near Kyiv, the body of Ukrainian Anastasia Berezovska, suspected of involvement in the attack, was found. The victim had a gunshot wound to the head, and shell casings were found nearby. According to the SBU, Berezovska entered Ukraine 1 in July — two days before her Interpol wanted notice. The State Border Guard Service says that at the moment of crossing the state border there were no grounds preventing the woman’s passage. Two men are suspected in Berezovska’s murder: a current GUR officer and a former law enforcement officer.
Image above: the place of the explosion of Yermolaiev and his wife in Monaco. Photo from open sources
“Argument”
On this topic:
Attack on Yermolaiev: in Berezovska’s murder, a GUR officer Reut is suspected — Goncharenko
Officially: the body of the suspect in Yermolaiev’s attack found, a GUR employee confessed to the murder, the mastermind allegedly being sought
The killer’s lawyer in the Yermolaiev case is connected with a Russian citizen, in whose house Budanov and Zelensky’s assistant lived – Levchenko
Murder of the suspect in Yermolaiev’s attack: “settlements” of a Dnipro-based ethnic OCU with involvement of GUR and SBU. And again “Right Sector”
