No person has been closer to Volodymyr Zelenskyy since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine than Andriy Yermak — and no absence may matter more.
The president and his powerful chief of staff literally lived and worked together inside the hulking Ukrainian presidential compound in central Kyiv since February 24 2022 — the day Russian forces began their full-scale invasion of the country and sparked the biggest conflict in Europe since 1945.
It was Yermak who loomed large over Zelenskyy’s shoulder in the president’s defiant video message on the first night of the invasion, which inspired a nation to take up arms in defence of its independence.
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