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Corruption scandal rocks Ukraine as it fights for survival against Russia’s invasion

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PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A sprawling energy-sector scandal is rocking Ukraine. Last week, the country was shocked by the exit of President Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak. Ukraine's second most powerful man resigned after the state anti-corruption body raided his home. As Jack Hewson explains, it's a crisis striking at the heart of the government as the country fights for survival against Russia's invasion. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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A sprawling energy sector corruption scandal is rocking Ukraine.

0:06.0

Last Friday, the country was shocked by the exit of President Vlodemir Zelenskyy's chief of staff,

0:11.0

Andrei Yermak, also Ukraine's second most powerful man.

0:15.0

He resigned after the state anti-corruption body raided his home.

0:19.0

As special correspondent Jack Hewson explains, it's a crisis striking

0:22.2

at the heart of government as the country fights for survival against Russia's brutal invasion.

0:29.1

As Ukraine's government scrambles to contain a corruption scandal, Key's residents are left to sweep up

0:34.7

the shards of another night of Russian attacks.

0:37.7

This blocking Key's outer suburbs was shredded by an Iranian-designed Shahid drone.

0:43.0

Windows punched out, cars upturned.

0:45.8

Amid the wreckage, we meet Pavlo, displaced from Dernetsk, already grieving his son killed

0:50.5

just months ago. My son was volunteering.

0:58.0

The Russians hit him with a drone right in his car.

1:01.0

He was delivering food in Kromatorsk, 4.5 kilometers from home.

1:05.0

Pavela fled to east for the safety of Kyiv, but Russia's drones have followed him here.

1:10.0

He tells us how he stood awake in his

1:11.9

living room, listening as they came. Eye witness's footage shows the moment of impact.

1:17.4

I heard the sound of a Shahid getting louder.

1:30.3

It came from over there.

1:32.3

Then an explosion.

1:34.3

A car flew into the air.

1:36.3

I was thrown backwards onto the sofa in my living room.

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