Suspect linked to Monaco bomb attack on millionaire breaks silence to BBC

Image source, Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesImage caption, Vitalii Zhykovych appeared in open court during the summer and has spoken to the BBC from prisonBySarah Rainsford, Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent and Mariana MatveichukA former Ukrainian security services officer linked to a bomb attack in Monaco in June that targeted a multi-millionaire says he believed it was ordered by senior members of HUR, Ukraine's military intelligence agency.In an exclusive interview with the BBC from prison in Kyiv, facilitated by his lawyer, Vitalii Zhykovych has given his own account of the attempted assassination for the first time.Ukrainian-born businessman Vadym Yermolayev and his 13-year-old son were badly hurt in the blast and his partner suffered catastrophic injuries. Yermolayev later described their survival as "nothing short of a miracle".Zhykovych describes himself as a "freelancer" for Ukraine's SBU security service and says Anastasia Berezovska, the woman caught on camera planting the bomb in Monaco, was his "agent".A week after the bombing, Berezovska's body was discovered in the woods west of Kyiv with gunshot wounds to the head.But Zhykovych insists he did ...