{"id":208179,"date":"2025-11-30T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/208179\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T15:02:14","slug":"who-is-andrii-yermak-zelenskys-deal-maker-and-kyivs-green-cardinal-who-resigned-after-police-raid-in-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/208179\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Andrii Yermak? Zelensky\u2019s deal maker and Kyiv\u2019s \u2018Green Cardinal\u2019 who resigned after police raid in corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Yermak has been substantially involved in the peace talks to bring the war to an endEarlier this week, he was fronting discussions in Geneva with the US secretary of state Marco Rubio<br \/>\n\tSince Zelensky\u2019s election victory in 2019, the pair have been inseparable, particularly after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak walk, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine January 22, 2024. REUTERS\/Gleb Garanich\/File Photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cb904ca9-04b8-4553-a6d8-8d29d0c1a677.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak walk, amid Russia&#8217;s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine January 22, 2024. REUTERS\/Gleb Garanich\/File Photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s chief of staff Andrii Yermak resigned on Friday after anti-corruption police raided his home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The raid is part of an investigation into a $100m (\u00a376m) corruption scandal by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor\u2019s Office. Both agencies released a report earlier this month saying that several government members were involved in an embezzlement scheme involving Ukraine\u2019s state nuclear power company, Energoatom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yermak has been substantially involved in the peace talks to bring the war to an endEarlier this week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,550,7,8,551,2263,5445,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-208179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-ukraine","23":"tag-vladimir-putin","24":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115639258215835831","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}