Yermak is a film producer and a former business partner of Zelenskyy, and they've also worked closely together and even lived together in the fortified government compound in Kyiv since the full-scale invasion. Anyway, he got caught up in the corruption scandal that broke in mid-November, involving at least eight people who are now under investigation, several close to Zelenskyy, who are suspected of siphoning off more than $100 million from the state nuclear power agency, and this at a time when Ukrainians are fighting a war and hunkering down under daily power cuts. Zelenskyy has endorsed this one, but while Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested the plan could still be the basis of a settlement, he said Russia would only stop its war if Ukraine leaves territory it's currently occupying, and he was referring to parts of Ukraine's eastern Donbas region that Russia has not been able to take in nearly four years of fighting.
Author: Eleanor Beardsley
Published at: 2025-11-29 22:00:29
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