Andriy Yermak, Chief of Staff in Ukraine's Office of the President, has been raided by Anti-Corruption Police, and has RESIGNED from the Zelensky Regime in Kiev. Yermak is widely perceived as having been the "muscle" behind Zelensky. Rumors in Kiev are now saying Zelensky's days as Ukraine President are numbered.
Yermak's home was searched Friday by investigators probing an alleged $100 million kickback scheme.
Two ministers were fired in connection with the probe earlier this month, and former defense minister Rustem Umerov, who has also featured prominently in negotiations with the U.S., has been mentioned by investigators but not faced any charges.
The scandal centers on an alleged scheme in which prosecutors said current and former officials, and businesspeople, received benefits and laundered money through the country’s state energy company, Energoatom, according to investigators.
Yermak, a towering figure with enormous political influence, has been Zelensky's closest adviser throughout the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but has come under increasing pressure over an escalating scandal - even though he is not (yet) accused of any wrongdoing.
Zelensky had recently appointed him to head crucial negotiations, with US President Donald Trump leading a new drive to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
In a stark address to the nation outside his presidential office, Zelensky called for unity, warning: "We risk losing everything: ourselves, Ukraine, our future."
Hal Turner Analysis
Word on the street in Kiev is that "Zelensky is finished" and others saying The Globalists are cutting him loose." It appears the moment almost everyone expected has finally arrived.
Zelensky — once the media’s golden idol, the globalists’ perfect puppet, and the West’s most useful asset — is now being sacrificed.
Anti-corruption authorities just raided his own office in Kyiv. His closest allies are fleeing the country.
Investigators say money was skimmed from Ukraine’s energy sector while ordinary Ukrainians sat in darkness during Russian strikes.
This is no minor scandal. This is the net tightening.
The global machine that installed him… is now dismantling him because Zelensky has served his purpose.
The war didn’t go the way NATO promised.
Western public support collapsed.
What appear to be money laundering pipelines are being exposed.
And now Europe is shifting to “post-Zelensky” planning.
So the question becomes: Where will he run? Or will he get erased before he can talk?
A desperate leader, engulfed in scandal, with billions unaccounted for and foreign intelligence services circling . . . this is how globalist assets end: Not with applause — but with handcuffs, exile, or (ahem) silence.
Making things all the more strange is that the U.S. is preventing Europe from seeing the terms of the new Russia-Ukraine negotiations. Europe is being kept completely in the dark by negotiators to prevent a replay of what took place last week when a 28 point plan was leaked.
Europe is pulling its hair out in frustration that the US has locked them out of the negotiations as well they should.
It is clear that European leaders seem to have gone insane, and that they want full scale war with Russia. But they lack the military resources to engage in such a folly and want the US to fight Russia for them.
The US, however, will not be dragged into yet a THIRD world war, by the maniacs in Europe, whose predecessors started two other World Wars.
What is driving this in Europe is that the continent is financially broke. They want to get their hands on Russia's $78 TRILLION worth of natural resources. Needless to say the Russians won't allow that, and the U.S. has no interest at all in going into another world war slaughter to satiate Europe's desire to grab Russia's wealth.
Diplomatically, this is the first time the US has intentionally cut-Europe-Out; it has never happened before.
In fact, so thorough is the cut-off of Europe that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to skip next week’s NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels!
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is set to attend instead.
NATO foreign ministers typically meet twice a year, and U.S. secretaries of state almost always attend. The fact that Europe is cut off from the Ukraine negotiations, and a U.S. second-stringer is being sent to the NATO foreign Ministers meeting, is utterly without precedent.
This is likely to get very, VERY ugly, very fast.
