“During the war, the relationship between President Vladimir Zelensky and the head of his office Andriy Yermak strengthened. If necessary, they live together and sleep in one bunker in the presidential complex. Financial Times writes about it with reference to your own sources. Relations between Zelensky and Yermak go beyond work, say their assistants and associates. Presidential team members say Ermak”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
During the war inZayemin between President Vladimir Zelensky and the head its Andriy Yermak’s office strengthened. By necessity They live together and sleep in one bunker in the presidential complex.
Financial Times writes about it with reference to your own sources.
Relations between Zelensky and Yermak go beyond work, say their assistants and associates. Presidential team members say that Yermak is the closest associate of Zelensky.
FT writes that they even sleep next to each other in the bunker protected from the air strikes where they work, and after a long day, Zelensky and Yermak “can relax, playing table tennis or watching classic movies.”
The Financial Times interlocutors also said that at the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Yermak and Zelensky, the assault rifles were kept at hand in case the Russian troops broke into the territory of the presidential complex.
Yes, one of the assistants in the Presidential Office, which was quoted by the publication, remembered that the rifles were there to “either break outside or to ensure a decent death and not be captured.”
“I was not afraid. I thought about this moment but didn’t worry about myself. I was afraid of my family and for the Ukrainian people, ”said FT Yermak.
In an interview with the publication, the OP leader rejects any hints that he is trying to concentrate too much power and overshadow the president.
“Sometimes campaigns, information attacks are happening against me. People say that Yermak does one thing or another. It’s nonsense. Very few people are ready to devote 100 percent of their lives and time to the country. When they see that they cannot control or influence someone like me, they are worried about them. But honestly? I’m indifferent, ”he says.
The Financial Times also writes that the decision to keep Bakhmut at any cost could not proceed from the military command, but from the Presidential Office-in particular, from his head Andriy Yermak.
Andriy Yermak is one of the most influential and closest to President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky Person. His activity as the Presidential Office is of considerable interest in both Ukraine and abroad.