Vadym Yermolaiev, who was injured in the blast, is the founder of the Dnipro-based industrial and trading group Alef and a long-time figure on Forbes’ list of Ukraine’s wealthiest individuals.

One victim was named by a local news outlet as Vadim Ermolaev - one of Ukraine's wealthiest men - who is understood to have fled the country amid the war with Russia

Police hunt fugitive after a rare explosion wounds multimillionaire Vadym Yermolaiev and two others.

Explosion at residence near border with France was ‘very likely an attack’, minister says