On Friday, the International Criminal Police Organization, known as Interpol, issued a red notice for 39-year-old Anastasiia Berezovska, a Ukrainian woman accused of orchestrating a bombing at a Monaco apartment complex. This attack allegedly targeted a Ukrainian oligarch with ties to Russia.

The explosion on June 30 at the apartment building, as reported by various media outlets, left Vadym Yermolaiev, a construction tycoon originally from Ukraine, injured.

Though Monaco’s public prosecutor, Stéphane Thibault, refrained from naming the victims, it’s been reported that the blast also wounded a woman and a 13-year-old child thought to be members of Yermolaiev’s family.

Interpol now lists Berezovska as wanted for attempted murder, placing an explosive device with the intent to harm on a public highway, as well as for criminal association.

Interpol identified the Ukrainian national as a dark-haired German-speaking woman who possibly has a tattoo of a snake on her arm.

The 39-year-old suspect was initially believed to be a heavy-set man. Monaco Deputy Prosecutor Morgan Raymond even initially referred to the suspect in masculine terms.

“He stood up a few meters ahead of the victims, placed an explosive device taken from his shopping bag on the entrance steps of the building, then turned to confirm the presence of the three victims before triggering the explosion using a remote control,” Raymond said at an initial news conference after the incident.

Prosecutors reviewed footage of the days leading up to the explosion, finding that a man wearing a fishing hat repeatedly cased the apartment building and surrounding area. However, on June 28, the man was absent from security footage. Instead, a woman — who prosecutors now believe to be Berezovska — followed the same patterns as the man.

“The repeated reconnaissance operations and the pauses made in front of the building clearly demonstrate the intention to specifically target the three victims,” Raymond said.

Investigators tracked her escape across the Monaco-France border, through Italy and into Germany, where authorities are now actively looking for her. They raided her Frankfurt apartment Thursday.

Raymond noted that the sophistication of her explosive device gives prosecutors reason to believe she did not act alone.

“The relative sophistication of the explosive device and the modus operandi appear to indicate that the person who placed the device was not acting alone,” Morgan said.

Though authorities have provided no motive, Yermolaiev’s status as a sanctioned former Ukrainian is notable.

The 58-year-old construction tycoon renounced his Ukrainian citizenship in 2017, Ukrainian media reported, and has been a citizen of Cyprus since 2019. 

In 2023, the Ukrainian government sanctioned him for allegedly continuing to engage with Russia, paying taxes to Moscow and facilitating business transactions through his liquor business in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014.

The family of a Pennsylvania police officer, who took his own life following laser eye surgery, has initiated a wrongful death lawsuit.

Ryan Kingerski, a 26-year-old police officer serving the Penn Hills Police Department near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was discovered dead in January 2025 in a wooded area off Old William Penn Highway. His death occurred just over five months after he underwent LASIK eye surgery, as detailed in the lawsuit filed by his family.

The legal action, brought forward by Kingerski’s parents, Timothy and Stefanie Kingerski, alleges that he endured ‘severe and debilitating complications’ resulting from the quick elective procedure, which included unbearable pain, double vision, and ongoing headaches.

In their lawsuit, Kingerski’s parents assert that their son was not adequately informed about the risks associated with the procedure, and the resulting complications ultimately led to him ending his life.

“He left us a note that said, ‘I can’t take this anymore. LASIK took everything from me,'” Tim Kingerski shared with KDKA-TV last year. “That’s the note that we received.”

The lawsuit, filed Monday, names LASIKPlus Pittsburgh, its parent company LCA-Vision and Dr Michael Rom, the ophthalmologist who performed the surgery in 2024. 

Rom’s biography on LASIKPlus’ website claims he has performed more than 35,000 LASIK procedures since 2006.  

Kingerski’s family is seeking unspecified damages under Pennsylvania’s wrongful death statute, which allows a personal representative of a deceased person’s estate to file a lawsuit to recover financial losses and emotional damages. 

Representatives for LASIKPlus and Rom could not be immediately reached by the Daily Mail for comment. LASIK.com posted a statement on May 29, 2025, in response to news reports of Kingerski’s death and his family linking it to LASIK. 

‘The news reports of Ryan Kingerski are devastating. A 26-year-old officer from Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, described by those who loved him as witty, charming, and full of life, is no longer here,’ the statement read. 

‘The emotional weight of these news reports have led some to imply that LASIK is inherently unsafe, that it “took everything” from Ryan. It’s a heartbreaking statement. But it is also a statement that fails to reflect both the broader reality of LASIK outcomes and the complexity of suicide causality itself.

‘What we need is balance, not fearmongering or blind defense. We need doctors and surgical centers to continue to take every patient’s concerns seriously, to continue to provide consistent follow-up, and to continue to ensure informed consent is not just a formality but a meaningful conversation. We also need compassion and nuance when tragedies like this occur. 

‘Suffering often craves an explanation. It’s human. But we must remember that sometimes the most painful truths are also the most complicated, and that no headline, no statistic, and no single story can explain the full depth of someone’s mental or physical suffering.’

LASIK surgery – which stands for Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis – is an outpatient surgery that permanently reshapes the eye’s cornea to correct vision issues such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. 

Patients are given numbing drops rather than general anesthesia and can return home immediately after. 

LASIK typically costs $4,000 to $6,000, depending on the type of laser used and the severity of eye conditions being treated. 

About 600,000 to 800,000 LASIK surgeries are performed in the US each year. 

The procedure typically causes dry eyes, visual disturbances like spots or sensitivity to bright light, inflammation and possible infection, all of which tend to resolve within several weeks or months, according to health authorities.

However, experts warn patients with pre-existing eye conditions like dry eye and thin corneas, as well as autoimmune conditions, may experience more severe forms of these side effects.

The lawsuit claims that ‘at no time prior to the surgery did Dr Rom inform Mr Kingerski of the general or individualized risks of LASIK.’ The lawsuit also alleges that the surgery center ‘undertook a deceptive marketing scheme to lead consumers like Mr Kingerski to believe that LASIK was entirely safe and without consequences.’

According to the lawsuit, Kingerski had nearsightedness – also known as myopia – and thin eye tissue, which means more tissue often has to be removed during LASIK. 

The lawsuit alleges that Rom never examined Kingerski himself prior to the procedure and only met him minutes before starting surgery. 

Attorneys wrote that Kingerski was not given the informed consent paperwork until he had already paid for the procedure and had his eyes dilated. 

The surgery took place on August 14, 2024, and the lawsuit alleges that ‘almost immediately after surgery, Mr Kingerski began experiencing significant and painful complications.’

By August 19, according to the lawsuit, Kingerski ‘reported feeling like he could not function.’ He reported vision loss, dizziness, headaches, blurred vision, eye strain and nausea. By September 9, Rom had allegedly written a letter on Kingerski’s behalf seeking short-term disability benefits.

The lawsuit claims Kingerski began speaking out about his experience in online reviews and on social media in November 2024. 

The lawsuit also alleges by the time he sought a letter for long-term disability benefits in December, LASIKPlus and Rom had dropped him as a patient due to his online comments. 

According to the lawsuit, Kingerski’s mental and emotional health began suffering as his symptoms worsened, even though he ‘had no prior mental or behavioral health history.’  

‘The direct and proximate cause of Mr Kingerski’s suicide was LASIK and the associated complications he experienced with the procedure, all of which were the predictable consequence of his preoperative clinical picture,’ his family’s lawyers wrote in the lawsuit. 

If you or someone you know needs help, please call or text the confidential 24/7 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the US on 988. There is also an online chat available at 988lifeline.org.