{"id":36489,"date":"2025-11-29T10:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=36489"},"modified":"2025-11-29T10:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:01:48","slug":"zelenskys-top-adviser-resigns-after-ukrainian-anti-corruption-raid-on-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/zelenskys-top-adviser-resigns-after-ukrainian-anti-corruption-raid-on-his-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky’s top adviser resigns after Ukrainian anti-corruption raid on his home"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has resigned following an anti-corruption raid on his home.<\/p>\n

Yermak, a towering figure with enormous political influence, has been Zelensky’s closest adviser throughout Russia’s full-scale war, but has come under increasing pressure over an escalating scandal – even though he is not accused of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

Zelensky had recently appointed him to head crucial negotiations, with US President Donald Trump leading a new drive to end the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n

In a stark address to the nation outside his presidential office, Zelensky called for unity, warning: “We risk losing everything: ourselves, Ukraine, our future.”<\/p>\n

The corruption scandal has rocked Ukraine for weeks, weakening Zelensky’s own position and jeopardising the country’s negotiating position with the US at a delicate time.<\/p>\n

Ukraine, backed by its European allies, has sought to change the terms of a US-led draft peace plan originally seen as heavily slanted towards Russia.<\/p>\n

Early on Friday Ukraine’s two anti-corruption agencies raided Yermak’s apartment in Kyiv’s government quarters and the chief of staff said on social media that “from my side there is full co-operation”.<\/p>\n

“I’m grateful to Andriy that Ukraine’s position on the negotiating track was always presented as required: it was always a patriotic position,” Ukraine’s president said during his video address in Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Zelensky said he would start consultations on Saturday on who would replace Yermak as his top adviser: “When all the attention is focused on diplomacy and the defence in a war, inner strength is required.”<\/p>\n

“Russia wants Ukraine to make mistakes \u2013 there won’t be any mistakes from our side. Our work continues, our fight continues. We have no right… to retreat, to quarrel [among ourselves].”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC News: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has resigned following an anti-corruption raid on his home. Yermak, a towering figure with enormous political influence, has been Zelensky’s closest adviser throughout Russia’s full-scale war, but has come under increasing pressure over an escalating scandal – even though he is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36491,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36489\/revisions\/36491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}