Ukraine’s corruption scandal operation is thought to involve the acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, via his powerful Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak. Yesterday, NABU raided the Office of the President, and also Yermak’s home, where the material is expected to show Yermak’s running the massive kickback schemes, along with the extent of Zelenskyy’s involvement. Zelenskyy was forced to finally dump his long-time business partner and the brains of his private and public career. Now he must keep the corruption investigation from going any further or go down underneath it.
Last night, Nov. 28, he called on Ukraine to ignore the corruption scandal, take his word that they are winning on the battlefield, and, above all, stand united behind him. He argued that the country now needs “internal strength…. And for that internal strength to exist, there must be no reasons to get distracted by anything other than defending Ukraine…. And when we all face such an external challenge—war—we must remain strong internally. One hundred percent of our strength will be focused squarely on defending Ukraine. Everyone must now act in this very way....” It wasn’t quite “Hitler in the bunker,” but the echoes were there.
