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https://www.europesays.com/fr/932051/ Ukraine : Andriy Yermak, l’ex-bras droit de Zelensky, emprisonné dans une affaire de corruption #2026 #Actualités #Andriy #bras #droit #EU #europe #ex #GuerreEnUkraine #Monde #News #Ukraine #Yermak #Zelensky
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/116571407361350224
#Zelensky ex-Chief of Staff #Yermak indicted on corruption charges
Placed in custody for two months w bail at $3.1 million
If convicted, could face up to 12 years in jail - Six more defendants charged in the case over construction project near #Kyiv
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/116571407361350224
#Zelensky ex-Chief of Staff #Yermak indicted on corruption charges
Placed in custody for two months w bail at $3.1 million
If convicted, could face up to 12 years in jail - Six more defendants charged in the case over construction project near #Kyiv
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#Zelensky Corruption Crisis Escalates; #Yermak Accused; #Baltics Fear Russia Hacks #Kiev Drones; #Starmer
#Ukraine #Russia #Donbas #NATO #UkraineRussiaWar #NATORussiaWar #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaNATOWar #AlexanderMercouris #TheDuran
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#Zelensky Corruption Crisis Escalates; #Yermak Accused; #Baltics Fear Russia Hacks #Kiev Drones; #Starmer
#Ukraine #Russia #Donbas #NATO #UkraineRussiaWar #NATORussiaWar #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaNATOWar #AlexanderMercouris #TheDuran
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#NEWS OF THE DAY:
FORMER HEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION:The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have officially charged Andrii #Yermak with laundering 460 million UAH through luxury construction projects near #Kyiv. https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2026/05/11/8034239/
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Bringing Ukraine's kids back: Almost 60 countries unite to stop Russia's genocidal kidnapping of children -- As ceasefire ends, Russian drone strikes residential building in Kyiv -- Ukraine fears US will again push a deal giving Russia 'a lot' and Kyiv nothing -- As Victory Day ceasefire draws to a close, Russian attacks kill 3 civilians, injure 16 ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/tuesday-may-12-2026/
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Bringing Ukraine's kids back: Almost 60 countries unite to stop Russia's genocidal kidnapping of children -- As ceasefire ends, Russian drone strikes residential building in Kyiv -- Ukraine fears US will again push a deal giving Russia 'a lot' and Kyiv nothing -- As Victory Day ceasefire draws to a close, Russian attacks kill 3 civilians, injure 16 ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/tuesday-may-12-2026/
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Bringing Ukraine's kids back: Almost 60 countries unite to stop Russia's genocidal kidnapping of children -- As ceasefire ends, Russian drone strikes residential building in Kyiv -- Ukraine fears US will again push a deal giving Russia 'a lot' and Kyiv nothing -- As Victory Day ceasefire draws to a close, Russian attacks kill 3 civilians, injure 16 ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/tuesday-may-12-2026/
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Bringing Ukraine's kids back: Almost 60 countries unite to stop Russia's genocidal kidnapping of children -- As ceasefire ends, Russian drone strikes residential building in Kyiv -- Ukraine fears US will again push a deal giving Russia 'a lot' and Kyiv nothing -- As Victory Day ceasefire draws to a close, Russian attacks kill 3 civilians, injure 16 ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/tuesday-may-12-2026/
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Ukrainian state anti-corruption watchdogs have officially charged Andriy #Yermak, the former head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, with corruption and money laundering.
https://www.politico.eu/article/former-zelenskyy-chief-staff-charged-with-corruption-andriy-yermak/
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Saturday, February 7, 2026
Russia launches Friday morning rush hour missile, drone attack on Ukraine -- Drone discovered on Moldovan territory near Ukraine border -- 18 prisoners in 24 hours: Ukraine's Azov International reveals video of Dobropillia clearing operation -- Canadian female fighter at the forefront of Ukraine's drone war ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/saturday-february-7-2026/
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This appointment occurred after the dismissal of his predecessor, Andrii #Yermak, for his alleged involvement in a corruption scandal.
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NEWSFLASH: Volodymyr #Zelenskyy appoints intelligence chief Kyrylo #Budanov as head of the Presidential Office, replacing Andrii #Yermak after a corruption scandal.
The enigmatic spymaster now steps into one of Ukraine’s most influential political roles.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/newsflash-zelenskyy-taps-spy-budanov
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On the Great Ukrainian Сorruption
Ukraine's real power broker
Dec 18, 2023But the graft that has long contaminated the country's political system unsettles Ukrainians far from the circles of power. "Huge corruption" is Ukraine's biggest problem, an 18-year-old at a Kyiv café told me bluntly. "I love Ukraine," she said — but she hesitates to give money to the military for fear a dishonest official will steal her donation. Earlier this year, investigative journalists revealed that the prices at which suppliers promised to deliver basics like potatoes and cabbage to Ukrainian troops were inflated two to three times beyond the purchase price reported to government tax officials.
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Before the war, Yermak came under fire for the air of corruption that seemed to surround him. In 2020, the Kyiv Post — in a scandal it dubbed "Yermakgate" (#^https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/bohdan-nahaylo-yermakgate-scandal-rocks-zelensky-administration.html) — reported on videos of Yermak's younger brother, Denys, appearing to discuss bribes in return for landing people jobs with the government and state-controlled companies. "Andriy Yermak insists he was not involved,"
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Oligarchs have been deeply intertwined in Ukrainian politics ever since the fall of the Soviet Union three decades ago. The basic formula is simple. "A question of power is a question of money," Arestovych explained, "and a question of money is a question of power." The fancy term for this sleazy method of rule is "patronalism" — a feudal-like system in which rival clans, individually tied together by personal loyalties, predominate over the rule of law.
Before Zelensky's rise to power, the business oligarchy in Ukraine, as in other post-Soviet countries, operated on a spoils system that amounted to might makes right. There was little incentive for an honest entrepreneur to launch a company with the knowledge that, with the company's success, one of the clans might muscle in on the venture and seize control, no matter what legal protections were on the books. As clan leaders became billionaires, through their capture of industrial and financial assets, Ukraine remained desperately poor, its wealth routinely pumped out of the country into offshore accounts. In 2018, the year before Zelensky's election, Ukraine ranked as the poorest country in Europe, with a GDP per capita income of just below $3,000 — 8% lower than that of Moldova, the second poorest.
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A decade later, on a second reporting trip to Odesa, I asked my Ukrainian companion for the name of the biggest owner of assets in the sprawling industrial city. The answer, he told me, was Ihor #Kolomoisky.
Kolomoisky enjoyed a reputation as one of the most ruthless of the oligarchs in post-Soviet Ukraine. He had amassed substantial holdings in metals, banks, airlines, energy, and media. He was also connected to Zelensky: His 1+1 Media Group included a Ukrainian television channel that broadcast Zelensky's scripted shows and championed his run for the presidency. More than a few insiders in Kyiv's political, business, and media circles regarded Kolomoisky as the real victor of Zelensky's improbable triumph, the modern-day robber baron who would now run Ukraine behind his likable front man.
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Roman Ilto, another cosmopolitan type, works for the Swedish Embassy in Kyiv on energy and environmental issues. Unlike many critics of the oligarchs, he witnessed their rise firsthand. In the early 2000s, after studying at Harvard, he returned to Ukraine to work for a steel and mining company. That was his first exposure to "clan culture," he told me over breakfast at my hotel in central Kyiv. In those days, listening to the incessant talk about the rivalry between Kolomoisky and #Akhmetov, he began to understand oligarchs as the organizing principle of Ukrainian political and economic life. In 2016, he joined Ukrnafta, the state-controlled oil and natural-gas giant, and spent nearly seven years there, including stints as head of government relations and investor relations.
Since the war began, Ilto said, control of the energy sector has been seized by a "nascent" oligarchic clan led by Yermak. Under a national security decree issued by Zelensky, the state had assumed full ownership of Ukrnafta and other strategically important companies.
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Ilto flagged another top Yermak deputy, Rostyslav #Shurma, who served the Akhmetov clan for years before assuming oversight of energy and other sectors of the economy for the Office for the President. Like Oleh #Tatarov, Shurma is cited in Kyiv circles as another cog in the Yermak machine. "He kind of acts as a cashier for Yermak and the Office of President," said an ex-Zelensky government official who declined to go on the record for fear, he said, of becoming a target of the Yermak team. In a lengthy September piece, Ukrainska Pravda portrayed Shurma as a mini-empire builder. The paper, which is owned by a private-equity firm headed by a Czech-born businessman who served on the board of Transparency International Ukraine, cited a "scandal" in which the state bought electricity from solar plants co-owned by Shurma's brother, even though the plants were no longer connected to the Ukraine energy grid. Asked by Time about the matter, Shurma called it a "piece of shit" thrown at him by Zelensky's political enemies.
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For #Biden, the issue of political corruption in Ukraine is both deeply familiar and especially thorny. As vice president, Biden handled the Ukraine portfolio for the Obama administration from 2009 to 2017. In 2015, a career State Department official raised concerns with a Biden aide that Hunter Biden's service on the board of the energy firm #Burisma could complicate President Barack Obama's efforts to prod Kyiv into battling corruption. But the official, who later related the story in closed-door testimony to Congress, said the aide told him Joe Biden did not have the "bandwidth" to deal with the matter involving his younger son as his older one, Beau, was dealing with cancer. It was a desire to dig up political dirt like this on Hunter Biden's activities in Ukraine that led Trump to threaten to withhold military aid to Ukraine, leading to his first impeachment. (The White House did not respond to repeated requests for comment for this story.)
#^https://archive.is/bB8pr
src: #^https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraines-real-power-broker-yermak-zelensky-russia-war-biden-2023-12
#ukraine #ukrainian #government #mafia Great #corruption #energy #defense #economy #lawlessness #crimes #money #Kolomoysky #Yermak #Zelensky #Poroshenko #oligarchy #history #poverty -
Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
Before resigning, #Yermak, #Zelenskyy's Chief of Staff, wanted Ukraine's SBU head fired for not protecting him from investigation, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
This follows Yermak's alleged involvement in a massive corruption case.
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#Ukraine’s delegation was led by a new chief negotiator, national security council secretary Rustem Umerov, after the resignation on Friday of previous team leader Andriy #Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky, amid a corruption scandal at home.
As the meeting began, #Umerov thanked the US & its ofcls. "US is hearing us, US is supporting us, US is walking besides us," Umerov said in English.
#Trump #PutinsPuppet #MafiaState #geopolitics #Russia #StandWithUkraine
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Zelensky’s ex-chief of staff Yermak says he’s ‘going to the front’ after #resigning amid #corruption probe
“I’m going to the front and am prepared for any reprisals,” he said. “I am an honest and decent person.”
#Yermak's remarks came after the National #Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) searched his premises on Nov. 28 as part of a sweeping probe into alleged #embezzlement at state nuclear operator #Energoatom.
https://kyivindependent.com/zelenskys-ex-chief-of-staff-yermak-says-going-to-the-front/
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
Russian victory would cost Europe twice as much as supporting Ukraine, study find -- Successful Ukrainian naval drone strike disables 2 Russian shadow fleet tankers -- Russian drone violated Moldovan airspace during 10-hour attack on Kyiv -- Russia declares Human Rights Watch an 'undesirable organization' ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/11/sunday-november-30-2025/
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Ukraine’s political system is bracing for a “mini-revolution” as the county’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is forced to adapt to life without his closest adviser, chief enforcer and most loyal associate, Andriy Yermak, who resigned on Friday after his apartment was searched as part of a widening anti-corruption probe.
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Saturday, November 29, 2025
1 killed,11 injured in Kyiv amid Russian missile, drone strikes on residential buildings -- How Ukrainian helicopter pilots hunt down Russian drones -- Ukraine strikes Saratov oil refinery, airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea -- Unmanned Systems Forces blow up $60m worth of Russian air defense systems in 3 days ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/11/saturday-november-29-2025/
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“What’s the difference between Ukraine and Germany?”
“In Ukraine corrupt politicians have to resign.” -
Zelenskyy ally Andriy Yermak resigns amid a corruption probe.
Andriy Yermak has served as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff since 2020.
Yermak’s resignation came just after his home, and reportedly his office, were searched as part of a corruption probe by authorities earlier in the day.
#AndriyYermak #Yermak #Ukraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy #Zelenskyy #Corruption
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Der Unterschied zwischen der #Ukraine und #Deutschland:
In der Ukraine müsse Politiker nach Korruptionsvorwürfen zurück treten.
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Ask Ukrainians who the country's most powerful figure was after the president, and many would say Andriy #Yermak, his chief of staff and a key negotiator during four years of war when Western support has kept Kyiv in the fight. Not any more.
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#Zelenskyy's Presidential office’s chief of staff Andriy #Yermak resigns after corruption charges
https://youtube.com/shorts/fpU5tKrXbp0?si=RG8GQjJn_lODwilW
( Ed : Putin had good week everywhere except the actual battlefield )
11/28
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#Yermak coordinated the team of #Ukrainian negotiators during the #Ukraine-U.S. peace talks in #Geneva and the May negotiations in Istanbul.
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Maryana #Bezuhla, the MP from #Zelensky's 'Servant of the People' Party and #Yermak's mouthpiece, is at it again. She bashed the #AFU, its generals and personally commander #Syrsky for hiding the fact that #Krynky and #Robotyne have been lost for weeks now. She also demands Syrsky to resign. A similar campaign against #Zaluzhny last year led to his dismissal. Maryana also hints she'd like a post of minister of defence of #Ukraine 🤡
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🔞 NSFW Content warning 🔞
1/ The Russians shelled a civilian object in the village of #Groza, #Kupyansk district.
At least 51 people are known to have died. Among them is a child, a 6-year-old boy. It is also known about 6 wounded - also one child, a girl.
Emergency services are on location.
This is according to the Head of the Office of the President Andriy #Yermak