Andrey Yermak is not just some random high-level government official in Ukraine. Andrey Yermak was President Zelenskyy’s right hand, chief of staff, organizer of the functions of Ukrainian government and the guy who controlled the systems that keep all other government officials working on the agenda of the President.
If you took Susie Wiles and Marco Rubio’s responsibilities and combined them into one job function, that would be the scale of importance and influence that Andrey Yermak controlled inside the Ukrainian government and the office of President Zelenskyy.
Left, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – Right, Andrey Yermak
Today, following an explosive criminal corruption charge that surfaced less than 36 hours ago, Andrey Yermak appears in court to face charges of corruption, theft and money laundering. Yermak was under investigation for his role in theft through the energy sector and now stands accused of using construction projects near Kiev as a tool to launder money to himself and other high-level government officials.
There are three facets to this I find very interesting. First, is the timing. Second, is the often-overlooked admission by National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) about them working closely with FBI investigators in Europe and American intelligence units. Third, is the way they caught him: “The anti-corruption bureau shared part of a wiretapped conversation as part of its case and said six more people had been identified as suspects.”
(Via BBC) – […] For years he was a close friend of Zelensky, and led Ukraine’s talks with the US until an anti-corruption raid on his flat last November prompted his resignation.
Ukraine’s Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office (Sapo) said it was asking the Kyiv court to either place him in preventive detention or give him bail of about $4m (£3m). The head of the National anti-corruption bureau (Nabu) stressed that Zelensky himself was not part of the pre-trial investigation.
Yermak had been the president’s closest adviser throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion, until he became caught up in a broader inquiry by Sapo and Nabu into an alleged $100m (£74m) embezzlement scheme in Ukraine’s nuclear energy sector.
As part of Operation Midas, ex-Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov was charged with abuse of office, while businessman Timur Mindich reportedly fled the country after he was flagged as a suspect and ex-Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko was detained while trying to leave.
Like Yermak, Mindich was once part of Zelensky’s inner circle and co-owned the president’s former TV studio Kvartal95, before sanctions were imposed on him. Mindich denies wrongdoing.
The latest claims center on an elite housing project called “Dynasty” in a village outside Kyiv where millions in construction funds were allegedly laundered. The anti-corruption bureau shared part of a wiretapped conversation as part of its case and said six more people had been identified as suspects. (read more)
On November 17, 2025, reports surfaced indicating that Yermak, then head of Zelensky’s office, might have been recorded by NABU. Subsequently, Yermak’s residence was searched on November 28, and by evening, Zelensky had dismissed him from his position.
Since late April, Ukrainian media outlets and parliament members have continued to publish new excerpts from the recordings. These reveal Mindich discussing with Rustem Umerov, the current Secretary of the Security Council and former Defense Minister, details of embezzlement from multimillion-dollar contracts, funding for drone manufacturing through a company affiliated with Mindich, and potential candidates for the Ukrainian ambassadorship to the United States. Keep in mind, Rustem Umerov is the current lead negotiator and point of contact for U.S. peace efforts.
Russia Federation President Vladimir Putin suggested last weekend that the war in Ukraine was “coming to an end.”
Interesting timing.
Zelen ski is SHOCKED
SHOCKED i tell you
Your winnings sir…
My favorite scene. Always good for some laughter.
“Play it again, Sam.”
At least Zelenski has HIS piano playing “to fall back on”
His style is the traditional hunt and peck(r).
Can you please desist from posting such porn ? I just ate.
The high heels must have made him at least 5’
OMG
Puny skills, compared to grifting Uncle Sam.
Close…
AND
Not shocked enough….slimy weasel that he is.
An electric chair (after a trial and conviction) should do the trick.
GB, such a legalist. Can we at least skip the trial in the intrest of time and just convict him? We have already wasted way to many years on him.
Hey hey now, we don’t want CTH to be accused of inciting vigilanteism…. Let’s keep it legit.
😎
If McStain was still around he would be taking care of this personely. His ride or die Lindsey just isnt tough enough for the task of leak plugging. Maybe the one eyed guy from Texas?
I shudder to think of exactly how McStain would be “taking care of this personally”…….
Dan Crenshaw seems to have a problem with acknowledging the massive fraud committed in 2020 by Democrats across the nation. I will not mock his loss of an eye to an IED while in combat as a Navy Seal, and he was for a long time a staunch conservative in most policy issues. But at some point he changed and has chosen a different political path to pursue. He’s not reliably on our side in the current national battle.
At some point some not so nice “actions” got filmed and used to blackmail him.
Epstein Island maybe….
That’s an insult to weasels!
Only the slimy ones….. 😎
Likely the piano player wouldn’t last a hour in public once a Ukrainian crowd gathered around him. Be fun to watch though
ZEL now has an invisible noose around his neck.
BTW, very strange that Canada’s Foreign Minister Anand set up an international gathering scheduled for Sept 28-29 that will assemble international leaders in matters of rescuing Ukrainian children.
Other than the timing of such event in Toronto, this just screams of corruption.
If POTUS Trump doesn’t partake in this event, what will be the message Canada will send?
https://x.com/AnitaAnandMP/status/2053905540858671591?s=20
Melania has these as one of her interests.
“Ah Paris, I remember it well, you wore blue, the Germans wore gray. “
Are the walls closing in on Z-man or does that only happen to President Trump?
Ditto, ditto I tell you!
Great movie, great scene.
is Sen.Graham/kagan /nudelman/blinken…in the state of shock too ????? VVP…shut down this sh*t show golden West is unwilling /unable……
A corrupt Ukrainian official on the take during an active war with Russia and begging the world for money and weapons?
The hell you say?
I’m still trying to figure out what construction project is occurring in a war zone.
How much if the laundry had been picked up by Z? Subletting the laundromat ?
“… The head of the National anti-corruption bureau (Nabu) stressed that Zelensky himself was not part of the pre-trial investigation….”
Maybe Z thinks – having just fired/ distanced himself from his “closest bestie” – he’s in the clear right now…
we’ll see what happens.
So Nabu head says Zelenskyy was not part of the pre-trial investigation.
Who appointed the members of the National anti-corruption unit?
🤷♀️
If I get 3 guesses, one is Z.
Although I also am guessing that saying he wasn’t part of THAT investigation doesn’t mean
there isn’t a separate & other investigation with an adjacent focus on the fired “closest bestie’s”
“closest bestie” going on concurrently.
This is not the Shawshank Redemption – Z will not have crawled through every inch of the blood & shit perpetrated in Ukraine only to come out clean as a whistle on the other side.
A bag man for the Z man. And perhaps a sacrificial layer between Z and the money.
I’ll bet Yermak doesn’t know he’s suicidal.
Exactly.
Right! and Hillary doesnt even need to be involved.
Doesn’t Donetsk loosely translate to Arkancide?
Yes.
You’re Done…tsk
deb, you are correct — Automatic Deposit with 52 digits and a DEBIT card.
Cankles started whole thing – the Maidan coup was on her watch. The Orange Revolution instead of an orange jumpsuit.
😂 😂 😂 😂
Bingo!!
He will need a helicopter ride to figure this out .
LIKE –
” January 18, 2023, Ukraine’s interior minister Denys Monastyrsky and several other officials were killed in a helicopter crash near Kyiv ” …
DON’T ” put ALL the Eggs in One Basket ” !
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ukraine-interior-minister-among-at-least-17-dead-in-helicopter-crash
This is the most real comment,any day now!
We must not lose sight of the fact that the top leadership of Ukraine consists of birds of a feather but there is not only corruption among the recipients of Western money but also among the donors. One needs to follow the money trail and see who all benefits.
“I have nothing to declare I have Diplomatic imunity!”
Ukraine cannot keep its name off the Most Corrupt Nations list. Ever. Not the worst, but always in the Top 10.
Ukraine fought with the NAZIs so there’s that.
Still does… remember President Putin’s original intention:
De-naz!fication.
That has never changed.
We should’a-could’a been helping him with that – bother there AND here.
Isn’t Bessent on that trail??
Now do Weazelinsky himself.
Could it be that he was starting to look more like a rival than a supporter of Zelensky?
Noise vs Signal
All the worlds a stage
Zelle in Ski
Is a representative of a delegation
His delegation has been told by the controllers to wrap it up
They nor their ilk will go down
This is the signal to burn all their henchman
And the ledgers. . .
Why do you insist on doing this? The only other people I know of who favour this sort of word-gaming are also convinced that red hair is a marker of Nephilim ancestry, as an example.
Zelle is for money transfer. . .
See, there are these phrases that are humorous
A . . . Play
On words
It’s funny
The fact that it bothers you
Is a bonus for me
Zelensky probably set him up so he could look innocent. Are we really supposed to believe that Zelensky is not the ring leader of this scam? How did Zelensky get the uranium mine in South Africa?
If you know their name
They aren’t in control
Exactly! Zelenskyy is but a mere puppet. Tiny in both stature and importance.
Remember, Zelensky can play piano while not using his hands.
That’s not piano playing – that’s a humiliation ritual involving sex-u-al assault of a defenseless musical instrument.
Talk about sick.
I can explain that….
Either this makes Z a stupid stooge, out begging for money that somehow didn’t do what it should, or he was a wise thief who kept his name out of the soup. Much like here, one wonders who will actually be the fall guy.
We can Hope it will be the Democrat party! You know, those who started this war.
Who all was on that congressional trip, last year, advising them against POTUS negotiating points. Does this make the EU weenies look dumb too or on the take?
Most of them.
This one looks like an example of what happens to you when you take one more penny than allowed by the Euro/American cabal milking the Ukraine shitshow.
They jack you up with the laws you all were breaking. What a f-ing brilliant strategy.
One down…
How many more to go.
…and their US counterparts. I’ll bet there are more here than there.
Interesting timing is right.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was asked by Chris Coons today when the $400 million allocated for Ukraine/Little Z Man/Unnamed Others (😎) was going to be released and an account submitted to the House committee.
Secretary Hegseth’s answer was unhestitant, short, firm, and non specific…with no mention of Ukraine. Which of course upset an impatient Coons.
Curious(er and curiouser, said Alice).
Not stunning, completely expected.
What about the hundreds of billions that was stolen from this country and tons and tons of it in $100 bills ?
Zelenskyy deserves this type of investigation x10 after confiscation of his multi million dollar homes in Miami and the Med and Italy and Russia of all places and many other countries paid for with U.S. tax dollars.
His wife spends like there is no tomorrow including very expensive cars and shopping spree one after another globally and putting his homes in his mother in laws name should gain extra attention.
This investigation is a joke into someone Zelensky was most definitely involved in.
I would love to know how money moves from US like when Biden approved billions to Ukraine. Does the money get deposited in a a Ukrainian bank? Wells Fargo?
Just think it is kinda interesting how a “paper” trail is created.
Wherever in the Ukraine that it first went to when it left the U.S., forget about a paper trail after that. No auditor will ever get access to what really happened to the money. They will create a false paper trail to satisfy an auditor, if you can find one that would feel safe even going over there to take a look, war or no war. Ukraine did not get their reputation as one of the premier money laundering hubs in the world without really having earned it. Even if the federal money never left the U.S. and was used to buy things to send over there, those things can just as easily and quickly vanish on the black market and they still get the cash.
How does Z man NOT know about what this creature was up to????
Must have happened on the top shelf
Shit rolls downhill. I bet he’s taking the fall for a bunch of others. Zelensky included
Might be the plan.
Doubtful if it will simply end with throwing this guy under the bus so that others can evade consequences.
We will see.
Eventually the war and the Zelensky regime will come to an end and many of the grifters will flee so they can enjoy their ill-gotten gains. Others will just go to work for the new regime and commence grifting under and for the new leaders. A few big names may pay a price, but no consequences for most others whatever happens.
Some of these people might end up in the U.S. asking for asylum and then start a new career in Medicaid or housing fraud.
They can go on running for a long time, but sooner or later God is going to cut them down for what they have done to their fellow man.
He might take a bath and do what the Romans used to do.
Remember Frank Pentangeli.
The corruption isnt the surprise. We in the US have unfortunately come to understand how very normal and common it is. The surprise comes in the prosecution of the corruption. We’ll see if any justice comes out of it.
More US taxpayer money down the toilet…please investigate all flag waving representatives.
🙄🇺🇦
“All those Ukr flag-waving representatives”: it will be interesting to see how many of them quit wearing their little blue/yellow flags on their lapel.
I thought in Ukraine, just like the US, you cant bring charges against candidates late in an election?…………Oh, that’s right.
Whatever it takes to stop the madness. The Ukraine thing is just a huge, corrupt, money laundering fiasco that has killed millions of lives on both sides of their borders. What is fascinating to me is how the game is played, how they dance around… Rather than pick up Zelensky at midnight and drop him off a cliff or put him in a highly secure prison (i.e., he is not the target obviously), they have to go about it sideways, from multiple angles, since so many countries and persons are involved in the fraud and conspiracy.
What a tangled web we weave when we first practice to deceive (CONgress!)
I wonder how Ukrainians and Russians will remember the conflict. So many, many, have died, so much destruction…
Such a great comment, but unfortunately it echoes across much of history. There is a lot of money to be made in war and always those willing to sacrifice the pawns to enrich themselves.
I’m sure part of the embezzlement was redirected back here to corrupt politicians.
you misspelled most.
Sounds like a US Taxpayer funded enterprise coming to a close to me .. wonder if he knows he’s suicidal..? Asking for a cousin
Trust the Midas touch?
Isn’t this the same strategy being used against Iran, which itself is using the same strategy as Ukraine? Meaning, the globalist backers of Ukraine and Iran refuse to cry uncle even though they’ve been beaten to a pulp, apparently playing rope a dope and hoping to outlast Putin or Trump.
In response, Putin and Trump shut down the gravy train for the frontline players.
kudos on that very creative way to say it about iran.
its the same because the MIC and globalists get our money in both conflicts.
And as we know MB: nothing screeches longer or louder than the brakes on the Gravy Train!!
…….hmmm … just ask BiB……
Not surprised at all, the whole war only is a money laundering scheme. Look at how many USA politicians when there in person. Had to go to get undetected CASH. We have Diplomatic immunity! Stinking crooks!
10% for the Big Guy! O’Biden’s and Harris re election $$$$$$$$$!
As long as he was setting aside ten percent for The Big Potato, there’s nothing to see here.
…. Not a speck…
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my favorite part of this is where the eurodummmies are celebrating the end of orban’s “corruption” in keeping them from sending 90B more to ukraine.
Don’t worry about Z getting away scot-free. The Azov battalion will take care of him later.
I hope someone is investigating money flows to the Ukranian brothers in America including this one running for Florida’s US Senate seat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Vindman
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Vindman
Reminds me of another traitorous twin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kelly
Oh geez, dear Florida, don’t elect the Vindman!
If you look down the memory hole, you will remember and find the stories of Orban intercepting cargo vans full of cash and bullion heading TOWARDS the Ukraine from Switzerland. I wonder if it had tags like on Christmas gifts with a To/From: on it? The logical grift would be the opposite, money heading from Ukraine to Switzerland.
Boy did that story disappear quickly. My first inclination was that the Ukes were selling their US paid for equipment to the Mullahs in a sort of Iran/Contra type arrangement. We know Langley likes to repeat the successful plays in their playbook.
Would be curious if any of that cash and bullion ended up going through the Bank for International Settlements.
Maybe if squeezed enough by select members of the Trump administration, he would squeal and testify against the Biden cabal’s corrupt involvement in Ukraine.
There’s this:
“Andrey Yermak was President Zelenskyy’s right hand, chief of staff…”
And this:
“If you took Susie Wiles and Marco Rubio’s responsibilities and combined them into one job function, that would be the scale of importance and influence that Andrey Yermak controlled inside the Ukrainian government and the office of President Zelenskyy.”
And this:
“For years he was a close friend of Zelensky, and led Ukraine’s talks with the US…”
And this:
“Yermak had been the president’s closest adviser throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion…”
And finally, there’s THIS:
“The head of the National anti-corruption bureau stressed that Zelenskyy himself was not part of the pre-trial investigation.”
So Yermak, Zelenskyy’s good friend, closest advisor and right-hand man in every aspect of Zelenskyy’s government, is dirty but Zelenskyy is clean?
Really?
Yeah, Zelensky made it perfectly clear. /s
They’re liberals, they lie right to your face these are table scraps compared to what Zelenky pilfered.
Nah, you know how bread and circuses work?
“………………admission by National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) about them working closely with FBI investigators in Europe and American intelligence units.”
The details of the cover story have been certified.
Has anyone checked Zelenshkyy’s italian villa for evidence?
My first thought was Tulsi found something and has shared with appropriate entities. Like the proverbial snowball down the hill.
NOT surprised at all. The Tulsi Gabbard revelations regarding the Ukrainian biolabs is also relevant here.
I’m going to go out on a limb and agree this is what Putin meant when he said the war will end very soon. Zelensky is toast and will be removed.
Theater… pure theater. Gotta give the EU and the US a bone on the corruption that goes on. It’s a mole hill on a mountain.
Oh snap! Busted for corruption in the Ukrainian energy sector…that means this guy is likely to take up a second job as an impressionistic painter with a crack habit and maybe start a GoFundMe account.
I’m shocked! Shocked to hear there’s corruption in Zslenskyy’s rule! 🤬🤬
Nah – I don’t believe it! Nope, un um. Hahahaha.
Oh, I do like the olive drab. Adds so much gravitas to these two mega hustlers.
When the penalties are made clear, these rats will start pointing fingers upward, sharing information that the NYT and CNN and BBC will willfully censor, but will ooze out.
What’s that phrase again…. “The Walls are closing In ?”
I betcha Biden and Obama, Schiff , Brennan etc and the entire Burisma Team are pooping their panties.
It’s a funny irony. Even these criminals are 2nd rate at being criminals.
I say watch the characters trying to use their passports to flee the USA. Can I see some ID sir / miss ?
“wiretapped conversation” ?
I’d bet whatever it is was picked up & provided by some other non-Ukraine contributing “agency.”
Zelensky overheard saying if I can no longer be the center of world attention, I am picking up my last pay check and go live off my Panama offshore accounts. See ya suckers. I am still a young man with a hot wife.
Maybe he will squeal on the rest of the mob that got money from the Ukraine money bag.
And the next contestant on The Price is Reich is…
Has any one seen the latest from Tucker Carlson?
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-iuliia-mendel-051126
Yes. More fortuitous timing.
Very good..