Andriy Yermak has been Zelenskiy’s lead negotiator in talks with Ukraine’s allies and helped convince the US to leave out some unpalatable elements from a proposed peace plan last week. His departure,

By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ask Ukrainians who the country's most powerful figure was after the president, and many would say Andriy Yermak, his chief of staff and a key negotiator during four years of war when Western support has kept Kyiv in the fight.

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine's anti-corruption authorities have conducted searches at the office of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, officials said on Friday.

Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities searched the apartment of Andriy Yermak, the influential top aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as the country is reeling from a major graft scandal and coming under pressure in US-led peace talks.

Ask Ukrainians who the country's most powerful figure was after the president, and many would say Andriy Yermak, his chief of staff and a key negotiator

The Geneva meeting between the delegations of both presidents postpones the decision on territorial and military concessions in favor of Russia

Volodymyr Zelenskiy is scrambling to resist a potentially humiliating peace deal put forward by US officials just as the Ukrainian president faces growing domestic pressure to ditch his most trusted aide in the war against Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that a proposed peace plan now under discussion with the United States and Europe has incorporated "correct" points, but sensitive issues were to be discussed with U.

While Trump attacked the Ukrainians, Marco Rubio flew to Geneva to seize control of negotiations that were going off the rails

President Donald Trump dispatched top negotiators for additional high level meetings with both Russia and Ukraine but said he would only be willing to meet the leaders of those countries if talks yielded a so-far elusive pact to end the war.