Ukraine presidential adviser Yermak resigns in another blow for Zelenskyy's government
CBC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has submitted his resignation amid a corruption scandal.
Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies searched Yermak's home in the morning on Friday. Yermak said he was fully co-operating with the investigators.
The departure of Yermak, 54, comes at a perilous time for Kyiv as it faces U.S. pressure to make concessions to Moscow to end its war on his country and lacks the soldiers or weapons to push Russian forces back.
Yermak, who was born in Kyiv and started out as a lawyer before setting up a media company, has been at Zelenskyy's side since long before Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. They met in the early 2010s, when Zelenskyy was a performer and producer in television and Yermak was an emerging figure in Ukrainian media.
When Zelenskyy ran for the presidency in 2019, Yermak was on his team and later cemented his place at the top of the administration.
Ukraine has been mired in scandal over an alleged plot to control contracts at the state atomic agency totalling tens of millions in kickbacks and laundered money as Ukraine tries to protect energy infrastructure from Russian airstrikes. Ministers German Galushchenko and Svitlana Hrynchu, from the justice and energy portfolios, respectively, resigned earlier this month, though each deny wrongdoing.
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