Russia Just Executed the First Stage of a Coup in Kyiv – And Trump’s Inner Circle Is Running Point
The Kremlin’s 2019 anti-Biden playbook is now the 2025 anti-Zelensky playbook – only this time the White House is on Moscow’s side
Right now, in real time, Moscow is executing the opening act of a regime-change operation against a democratic ally fighting for its survival. The kompromat is Russian, the delivery pipeline runs through Mar-a-Lago, and tonight Ukraine is paying the price in fire and blood.
Live developments still unfolding as missiles rain on Ukraine
Andriy Yermak, Zelensky’s chief of staff and the most powerful figure in wartime Ukraine after the president, had his home and offices raided by NABU yesterday and resigned today.
The “leaks” and “tapes” driving the raids come from Andriy Derkach – the exact same Russian agent who doctored Biden-Poroshenko tapes in 2019, fed them to Rudy Giuliani, got sanctioned by Trump’s own Treasury, and now sits as an official senator in the Russian parliament.
October 2025: Putin’s personal banker Kirill Dmitriev flew to the U.S. and personally handed Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner two packages – the 28-point Ukraine surrender plan AND the Derkach kompromat dossier on Yermak and Zelensky’s inner circle.
Jared Kushner is already en route to Moscow next week – not as a diplomat, but as the deal-cutter for the largest land, gas, and mineral grab in modern European history.
Yermak was literally in Geneva 48 hours ago finalizing Ukraine’s counter-proposals with Marco Rubio, and was scheduled to fly to Miami this weekend to meet Witkoff and Kushner before their Moscow trip. Raid → resignation → trip canceled.
Zelensky’s response today: Publicly thanked Yermak, called the scandal “Russian disinformation,” and sacrificed his closest ally to remove any pretext for Trump to cut aid or open a Kash Patel/Pam Bondi “investigation” into U.S. funds.
More heads are coming: Sources say Deputy PM Oleksiy Kuleba (reconstruction) and others are next – Zelensky is cleaning house faster than the Kremlin can leak.
Tonight in Ukraine (still ongoing): Over 600 Shahed drones, 50+ ballistic/cruise missiles, and multiple waves of Tu-95 bombers airborne – the heaviest combined attack in months, perfectly timed with the political crisis.
The ultimatum coming for Zelensky: Sign the 28-point capitulation plan (territorial concessions, permanent neutrality, immunity for Russian war criminals, full sanction lift) OR face total U.S. aid cutoff + a weaponized DOJ/FBI probe.
This is the reverse of Trump’s 2019 impeachment – same Kremlin playbook, same cast of Russian agents, only now the Oval Office is helping execute it.
The Bigger Picture – This Is About Far More Than One Man or One Scandal
Energy dominance: Control of Eastern Ukraine and Black Sea gas fields + revival of Nord Stream 2 would give Russia (and its partners) a chokehold on European energy for decades.
Rare-earth and critical minerals: The Donbas and occupied territories contain some of the largest untapped deposits left in Europe – essential for batteries, chips, and defense tech.
Trillion-dollar reconstruction contracts: Whoever dictates the “peace” deal decides who rebuilds Ukraine and pockets the money.
Weakening NATO: Forcing Ukraine into permanent neutrality and cutting U.S. aid is the fastest way to fracture Alliance unity and prove American guarantees are worthless.
Precedent for authoritarian deals: If Trump can strong-arm a democratic ally fighting an existential war into capitulation, imagine what he’ll do to Taiwan, South Korea, or the Baltic states.
Corruption exists in every country – including Ukraine and the United States.
But when the source is a sanctioned Russian senator, the delivery boy is Kirill Dmitriev, and the recipients are Witkoff and Kushner, this is not anti-corruption.
This is a Kremlin–Trump coordinated regime-change operation in the middle of a hot war. Zelensky sees the trap and is moving with ruthless speed to protect unity.
Ukraine is fighting on the battlefield and in the information space at the same time – and tonight they are paying for it in blood and fire again.