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Zelensky’s top aide Andriy Yermak resigns after raid on his home — upending Ukraine’s team for peace talks

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Zelensky’s top aide Andriy Yermak resigns after raid on his home — upending Ukraine’s team for peace talks

The head of Ukraine’s delegation negotiating for Kyiv on Ukraine’s peace plan resigned from office on Friday following a raid on his apartment.

Andriy Yermak, who served as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief aide, submitted his resignation hours after Ukrainian’s state corruption investigators searched his residence in the early hours of the morning.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak walk in Kyiv.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak in Kyiv on Jan. 22, 2024. REUTERS

Head of Presidential Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak.

Ukrainian Head of Presidential Office Andriy Yermak on March 26, 2025 in Paris. AFP via Getty Images

“NABU and SAP raided my apartment around 6 a.m. and searched it. This happened after a meeting in Geneva and on the eve of a weekend meeting in the US,” Yermak told The Post. “And immediately after my statement that we would not give up our territories.”

Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak in Kyiv.

Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak in Kyiv on Jan. 22, 2024. REUTERS

Zelensky has already shuffled his negotiating team tasked with working on the peace plan with the US.

Andriy Yermak and Volodymyr Zelenskiy pose for the press.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak in Spain on Nov. 18, 2025. REUTERS

Officers from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) pass through a checkpoint in Kyiv.

Officers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) pass through a checkpoint in the government quarter in Kyiv on Nov. 28, 2025. Ukrainska Pravda/AFP via Getty Images

It will now be represented by Ukraine’s Chief of the General Staff Andriy HnatovSecretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, and other employees of the Ukrainian ministries of Foreign Affairs and Intelligence.

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