Zelenskyy’s Shadow President Falls: The End of the Yermak Era
A corruption raid on Zelenskyy’s inner circle sparks fears of Kremlin interference—just as U.S. peace talks intensify
Andriy Yermak’s resignation is not a victory for Ukrainian democracy.
It is the Kremlin’s 2019 anti-Biden playbook, updated for 2025, and this time the White House is helping run it.
Domestic
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire for an alleged war crime Leaked cockpit audio and internal Navy SEAL reports claim that, during a September 2025 operation against a Venezuelan drug boat, Hegseth personally ordered a second strike on a burning vessel and then instructed the team to “kill them all” when two unarmed survivors were seen clinging to the wreckage. Democrats are demanding courts-martial and even raising the possibility of the death penalty; Hegseth has dismissed the recordings as “fake news.”
Fake ICE kidnappings have become a nationwide nightmare Masked men wearing tactical vests and carrying rifles are storming churches, school drop-offs, and workplaces in at least seven states. They zip-tie victims, throw them into unmarked SUVs, and disappear. Hours later families receive encrypted ransom demands for $20,000–$30,000. Local police say they are powerless because ICE refuses to confirm or deny operations in real time. The FBI has quietly opened a task force after confirming at least five verified cases in Texas, Arizona, and Georgia.
Trump’s Texas redistricting power-grab is hanging by a thread at the Supreme Court A three-judge federal panel in San Antonio struck down the GOP’s mid-decade maps as a blatant racial gerrymander designed to dilute Latino voting strength and flip five Democratic seats red before the 2026 midterms. Texas immediately appealed; the justices issued an emergency stay, but oral arguments in early December could decide whether Republicans keep their razor-thin 219–213 House majority.
Candace Owens says Emmanuel Macron put a €1.5 million contract on her life She claims the order came through France’s elite GIGN unit plus one Israeli assassin because she was days away from publishing evidence that Brigitte Macron is actually her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux and has been at the center of a decades-long pedophile blackmail operation among European elites. Owens publicly named the Paris payment channel (Club des Cent), handed the assassins’ names and bank-routing details to U.S. counter-terror agencies, and dared the Élysée Palace to sue her for defamation. So far: total silence from Paris.
She ties the same alleged kill team to Charlie Kirk’s murder Owens says the French–Israeli squad that shot Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk mid-speech in front of 10,000 people at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025, was re-tasked to her when her Macron investigation went viral. Kirk had texted allies days earlier that he feared Israel would kill him over foreign-money audits inside his own organization.
Her history of credible threats makes the claim harder to dismiss Federal cases include a 2025 guilty plea by Haim Braverman for interstate death threats against her family and a 2024 threat that matched Kirk’s exact death date one year later. Independent investigators (notably Valhalla VFT) have produced photo timelines, missing childhood records, and neighbor testimony that they say back Owens’ Brigitte Macron allegations.
International
Trump expelled South Africa from the 2026 Miami G20 and cut all aid The move, announced in an all-caps Truth Social post, is the first time a founding member has ever been thrown out. It follows Pretoria’s refusal to acknowledge or stop farm murders and land seizures targeting white farmers—now a non-negotiable red line for the second Trump administration.
Ambassador Christine Toretti is personally leading the effort to resurrect Northvolt Sweden’s bankrupt EV-battery giant (Chapter 11 in March 2025) is being pitched as the cornerstone of a U.S.–Nordic green-tech partnership and a China-free Western battery axis. Sweden remains America’s 9th-largest foreign investor, and new gigafactories are on the table.
Canada’s likely next NDP leader Heather McPherson wants to rewrite CUSMA She is pledging to treat EV-battery supply chains as a national-security issue and keep the high-value refining and gigafactory jobs in Canada instead of letting raw lithium, cobalt, and nickel flow south or to Europe. With McPherson dominating every leadership poll, her platform could choke off the minerals Toretti needs for the Northvolt reboot.
Trump unilaterally shut down Venezuelan airspace In a late-night all-caps Truth Social post he warned every airline, pilot, drug trafficker, and human smuggler that the skies over and around Venezuela are now “completely closed.” The declaration came days after a B-52 Stratofortress “attack demonstration” flyover off the Venezuelan coast—complete with tankers and F-18 escort—and follows months of lethal U.S. Navy strikes on narco-boats that have killed over 80 people.
The EU just delivered an ultimatum to Kyiv European Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath told Politico that Ukraine will not advance toward membership until it proves it has a “robust system” that actually investigates, prosecutes, and convicts high-level corruption—not just raids. The warning landed hours after the Yermak raid.
Ukraine: The Coup Is Already Under Way
The kompromat traces directly to Andriy Derkach The same sanctioned Russian senator who fed doctored Biden-Poroshenko tapes to Rudy Giuliani in 2019. NABU investigators have confirmed the leaks and wiretaps that triggered yesterday’s raids on Yermak come from companies still controlled by Derkach’s family network.
The delivery pipeline appears to have been Mar-a-Lago In October, Putin’s personal banker Kirill Dmitriev flew to Florida and handed Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner two sealed packages: the 28-point Ukraine capitulation plan (territorial concessions, permanent neutrality, war-crimes immunity, full sanctions lift) and—according to multiple leaks—a full Derkach dossier on Yermak and Zelenskyy’s inner circle.
48 hours ago Yermak was in Geneva finalizing Ukraine’s counter-proposals with Marco Rubio He was scheduled to fly to Miami this weekend to meet Witkoff and Kushner before their own Moscow trip next week. The raids hit Friday morning; the resignation was accepted by evening; the Miami meeting was immediately canceled.
Yermak’s dramatic farewell In a text to the New York Post just hours after stepping down, he declared: “I’m going to the front and am prepared for any reprisals… I am an honest and decent person… disgusted by the dirt thrown at me and the lack of support from those who know the truth.”
Tonight Russia launched its heaviest combined strike in months 596 Shahed drones, 36 ballistic and cruise missiles, multiple Tu-95 bomber waves—slamming Kyiv, Odesa, and energy infrastructure while the political system is still reeling from losing its most powerful wartime figure.
More heads are already marked Sources inside the presidential office say Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba (reconstruction portfolio) and others tied to U.S. and EU aid flows are next. Zelenskyy is moving with brutal speed to sacrifice his own people before the next dossier drops.
Bottom line: Yermak was the firewall.
They just blew a hole in it.
If Zelenskyy does not decentralize power to real reformers immediately, the next package from Moscow won’t be a dossier.
It will be a list of names for the new government.