{"id":1393088,"date":"2026-05-14T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yermaks-trial-why-is-the-president-of-ukraine-silent\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:54:00","slug":"yermaks-trial-why-is-the-president-of-ukraine-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/yermaks-trial-why-is-the-president-of-ukraine-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Yermak&#8217;s trial: why is the President of Ukraine silent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak received unlimited powers directly from the head of state. Therefore, the lack of official comments from the president regarding the suspicion of his associate is a worrying signal for society and international partners.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x-cTDO1b8qQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was expressed<\/a> in a comment to &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; by Sofia Fedyna, a People&#8217;s Deputy from &#8220;European Solidarity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This mandate was given to him by Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky. And I think that the president&#8217;s reaction should have been clear and understandable, as a head of state who cares about the survival of the state. I think that the president&#8217;s silence is also a very indicative reaction,&#8221; the People&#8217;s Deputy noted.<\/p>\n<p> Fedyna added that for years the person involved in the case concentrated influence over all branches of government, international politics, and even veterans&#8217; issues in his hands, which led to the gradual destruction of state institutions and the undermining of trust in management processes.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x-cTDO1b8qQ&#038;t=881s<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/internal-treason-ex-spy-chervinsky-accused-yermak-of-surrendering-the-south\/\">\u201cInternal treason\u201d: ex-spy Chervinsky accused Yermak of surrendering the south<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> She paid special attention to the appearance in court of intelligence officer Roman Chervinsky. According to her, the officer&#8217;s presence at the hearing is an act of fighting for the truth in memory of those who suffered due to the exposure of criminal schemes in the highest echelons of power.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, NABU and SAPO have exposed an organized group suspected of legalizing 460 million hryvnias in an elite construction project near Kyiv. The suspicion was reported to one of the participants in the scheme, the former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. The name of the person involved is not officially disclosed. However, according to media reports, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/andriy-yermak-otrymav-pidozru-u-spravi-pro-elitne-budivnytstvo-pid-kyievom\/\">it is Andriy Yermak<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Later it became known that on May 12, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sprava-nalichuie-16-tomiv-zapobizhnyy-zakhid-yermaku-ne-oberut-12-travnia\/\">did not choose a preventive measure<\/a> for the former head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak. Lawyer Igor Fomin asked to postpone the hearing, since the defense did not have time to familiarize themselves with the case materials. On May 14, the court nevertheless chose a preventive measure for Yermak &#8211; detention with the possibility of posting <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sud-obrav-zapobizhnyy-zakhid-yermaku-aresht-iz-zastavoiu-140-milyoniv-hryven\/\">bail in the amount of UAH 140 million<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sprava-yermaka-pryvernula-uvahu-yevrokomisii-shcho-zaiavyly-u-briusseli\/\">the European Commission commented on the case<\/a> of former head of the President&#8217;s Office Andriy Yermak, who is suspected of involvement in money laundering. They emphasized that it is such investigations that show that anti-corruption authorities in Ukraine are working. <\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1778743453594_hh52eh007\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1778743453605_ravy6qbxo\" data-dest=\"placeholder\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1778743453605_utskuiqbj\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"oa-360-1778743453605_by904t8e8\"> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak received unlimited powers directly from the head of state. Therefore, the lack of official comments from the president regarding the suspicion of his associate is a worrying signal for society and international partners. This opinion was expressed in a comment to &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; by Sofia Fedyna, a People&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1393062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76885,77101],"class_list":["post-1393088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-policy","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}