{"id":1327959,"date":"2025-12-02T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yermak-out-umerov-in-whats-wrong-with-the-negotiations-in-the-us\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:10:15","slug":"yermak-out-umerov-in-whats-wrong-with-the-negotiations-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/yermak-out-umerov-in-whats-wrong-with-the-negotiations-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Yermak Out, Umerov In: Ukraine\u2019s Negotiations Just Got Even Riskier in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kyiv has always had a taste for mysticism, but in recent weeks it has reached new heights. Formally, Yermak was \u201cthrown off the steamship of history,\u201d yet behind the polished announcements lies a storm of scandal, recriminations, and political calculation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems they handled it like the Mafioso are sent into \u201cwitness protection\u201d in the movies: alive, well, and still managing the operations \u2014 only now from the second row, from the same \u201cfront line\u201d that, it turns out, stretches into every negotiation room.<\/p>\n

What do we see? Zelenskyy proudly swaps the head of the negotiators: \u201cYermak out, Umerov in\u201d<\/em> \u2014 yet he hasn\u2019t even reviewed the rest of the delegation. As before, it is filled with freelance advisers: figures without a mandate, without responsibility, but with an uncanny ability to relay the impulses of their former boss, like Bankova\u2019s own Wi-Fi repeaters.<\/p>\n

In Poland, this is already being remarked upon. Because where else, if not in Warsaw, do they understand that if state negotiations suddenly start being run by people whose presence contradicts everything considered normal by a significant part of the electorate, then this is not diplomacy \u2014 it is experimental theatre. And on the stage, as always, shines Oleksandr Bevz: a freelance adviser, heir to the \u201cPeace Formula,\u201d and most importantly, a classmate of Zarivna and Vlasyuk \u2014 figures who ended up in the OPU at Yermak\u2019s recommendation.<\/p>\n\t\t