In an interview, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned that Western countries are risking more terror attacks on their soil by continuing to back a Ukrainian leadership that “feeds on Nazi ideology.”
Zakharova described last week’s bombing in Monaco as neither the first nor the last “bloody bite” inflicted by “Kiev regime terrorism” on its Western sponsors. She emphasized that the incident revealed how Ukrainian terrorism has spread far beyond its borders.
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 later died, as the main suspect. She had communicated with two men before the blast, including a serving officer in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR) who confessed to killing her.
Media reports indicate that investigators are examining possible involvement of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) in the bombing, citing claims that Ermolaev planned to expose corruption in Kiev. Zakharova condemned the decisions of Ukraine’s military leadership and the army itself as part of a broader pattern of terrorism.
“The Monaco bombing is certainly not the first,” Zakharova stated. “The point is that… these attacks are now carried out openly… as though they were something entirely routine.”
Zakharova linked the incident to the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions, which Moscow claims were orchestrated by Ukrainian authorities and Western intelligence. She accused Western governments of ignoring the ideological foundations of Ukraine’s leadership while continuing to arm Kiev.
“They draw their ideology from the ideas and philosophy of Nazism,” she said. “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.”
Zakharova singled out Poland for its role in supporting a government that glorifies figures responsible for wartime atrocities against Poles. She noted that 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 Kiev with billions in aid.
“They thought they were just throwing bones into the kennel [in Kiev] and would later profit… Is this the last bloody bite the West will receive from those it nurtured? Of course not,” she warned.
Moscow has accused Ukraine of carrying out terrorist attacks inside Russia and abroad, including a deadly May 22 strike on a college dormitory in Starobelsk that killed 21 people. In response to these actions, Moscow vowed “systematic and consistent strikes” on Ukrainian military infrastructure and “decision-making centers.”
