FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak walk, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine January 22, 2024. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo
KYIV (Reuters) -Ask Ukrainians who the country's most powerful figure is after the president and many will say Andriy Yermak, his chief of staff and a key negotiator during four years of war when Western financial and military aid has kept Kyiv in the fight.
Yermak, a friend of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his trusted right-hand man, is ensnared in an evolving corruption scandal after anti-graft agents searched his property on Friday.
