‘Oligarch’s mistress is woman who lost both legs in Monaco bomb blast’: She fights for life ‘as it emerges child also wounded is their son’
A woman who lost both her legs in a suspected assassination attempt on a Ukrainian oligarch is believed to be the target’s mistress.
Both of 46-year-old Anna Nasobina’s legs were blown off in an explosion at a residential building in Monaco, believed to have targeted her millionaire lover, 58-year-old Vadim Ermolaev.
Nasobina, whose 13-year-old son was injured along with Mr. Ermolaev in the attack, is currently fighting for her life in the intensive care unit of the hospital, like her boyfriend.
Initial reports suggested that the second victim of the explosion was Ermolaev’s wife Anna, 56, the mother of his other four children.
But it has now emerged that he was actually with his long-time mistress, London-based Nosabina, at the time of the explosion on Monday night.
Ermolaev’s wife Anna, 56, told Ukrainian state media Suspline: ‘We are currently under serious stress and are actively cooperating with the investigation and law enforcement authorities.’
Ukrainian political blogger Anatoly Shariy wrote: ‘In the explosion with Ermolaev, this person was not his wife.
‘It was this woman who lost her legs and was on the verge of life and death.’
Ermolaev and his sons were also injured while Nasobina (pictured) was in ‘serious condition’ fighting for her life
46-year-old Nasobina and her 13-year-old sons were next to the oligarch as his legs flew off
Nasobina, daughter of the former first deputy prosecutor of the Dnipropetrovsk region
It was reported that 58-year-old Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Ermolaev was with his girlfriend living in London, not his wife, when he was injured.
He said: ‘Ermolaev was with his mistress Anna Nasobina. He’s been with her for a long time. They have a common child who is 13 years old.’
The Suspline report stated: ‘The official wife of businessman Vadim Ermolaev, near [residential] No one was injured in the explosion that occurred in a building in Monaco on the evening of June 29, and he was physically somewhere else.
‘Suspilne learned from her own sources in law enforcement that the other woman was in serious condition.’
Nasobina, described as the businessman’s ‘common law wife’, originally comes from Dnipro, Ukraine.
She is the daughter of the former first deputy prosecutor of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Before moving to London, Nasobina studied law at Dnipropetrovsk National University, then studied at the International Management Institute.
He describes himself as ‘London-based’ and has been a director of UK company Wycombe Square Investments LLP since 2023.
He is co-founder of Club Éclectique, a private member and literary-artistic society registered in Oxford Street, affiliated with the Monaco office. It was established in 2016.
The club’s events feature Russian artists with pro-Kremlin ties, and participants include members of the Moscow diaspora in London.
An event he hosted in honor of ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev in 2017 was attended by guests including Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Yasmin Mills, designer Julien Macdonald, party queen Jo Wood, singer Camilla Kerslake and actress Camilla Rutherford.
Reports in France today suggest that investigators are examining possible involvement of the Ukrainian Security Service in the incident [SBU] During the suspected assassination attempt in which Ermolaev, Nasobina and their sons were injured.
It is stated that the explosion may have been a ‘warning’ rather than a deliberate murder attempt.
Nasobina is from Dnipro, Ukraine, and studied law at Dnipropetrovsk National University.
He describes himself as ‘London-based’ and has been a director of UK company Wycombe Square Investments LLP since 2023.
He is co-founder of Club Éclectique, a private members and literary and artistic society registered in Oxford Street.
Entrance of a residential building in Monaco, where a bomb injured Ermolaev, June 30, 2026
Ukrainian police have previously said the oligarch may have been blown up for his alleged links to a €100 million call center fraud scheme.
Police sources claimed that the violent attack was directly linked to a network of fake call centers in Dnipro, Ukraine, which were allegedly used to commit large-scale financial fraud across Europe.
The Ermolaev family allegedly played an important role in this plan; The oligarch’s name is at the center of a widening Europe-wide investigation into secret call centers operating out of Ukraine.
Ukrainian publication Ukrainska Pravda reported that the assassination attempt stemmed from a failed agreement to share land and unpaid debts allegedly owed to organized crime bosses in Dnipro.
Responding to reports linking him to the ‘boiler room’ scam, Theo Koshlyakov, the businessman’s legal assistant in Monaco, said: ‘To date, no legal proceedings have been taken against Mr Ermolaev in any jurisdiction.’
According to reports, Ermolaev has been living in the principality since 2021.
In 2019, he renounced his Ukrainian citizenship and received a Cypriot passport and was subject to personal sanctions by Kiev in December 2023.
France is assisting in the search for the suspect. Laurent Nuñez, one of the assistants to the French Interior Minister, said yesterday that the police were working ‘to find the perpetrator who escaped’.
There was a claim in the Nice-Matin news outlet that Ermolaev was planning to give a speech to the European Parliament regarding allegations of corruption in Ukraine.
