Yermak’s Untergang:

The downfall of Zelensky’s consigliere-in-chief may offer hope for peace

Andriy Yermak, longstanding head of Ukraine’s presidential administration (officially now known as the Presidential Office) has fallen. After being subjected to a long overdue – and probably not very surprising – search of his premises by the special anti-corruption agencies NABU (think of it as Ukraine’s graft police) and SAPO (that would be the graft prosecutor), Yermak has lost his job.

As sometimes happens on such occasions, he may also have gotten quite drunk. At least that’s how a social media post by him read, where he mightily pitied himself and announced his departure for “the front.” They’ll be so relieved in the cold, wet dug-outs of collapsing Pokrovsk to hear that a pasty desk jockey in habitually crumpled fatigues is coming to their rescue. Not.