Ukraine president's top adviser resigns
Newshour
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🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The top adviser to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has resigned after anti-corruption investigators raided his home in the capital Kyiv. Andriy Yermak was the president's chief of staff and headed the Ukrainian delegation at talks about ending the war with Russia.
Also in the programme: Airbus says it's ordering immediate modifications to six thousand of its aircraft after finding a fault that could affect flight controls; and eight more people have been arrested over Wednesday's fire in a group of Hong Kong tower blocks that killed at least 128 people.
(File photo: Andriy Yermak, former adviser to President Zelensky, pictured on January 22, 2024. Credit: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.4 | Live from London, this is Andrew Peach with NewsHour here on the BBC World Service. Good to have your company. |
| 0:15.4 | Today, the breaking news that the European aircraft maker Airbus is ordering immediate modifications to thousands of aircraft |
| 0:23.0 | after filing a fault, but what impact will that have on global travel? |
| 0:27.6 | And a tribute to the US National Guardswoman who was killed in that shooting in Washington on Wednesday |
| 0:32.8 | from a former colleague. We start, though, in Ukraine. As Chief of Staff, Andrea Yermak, |
| 0:39.4 | was so key to President Zendeski's operation, he led those talks about the US proposals to end |
| 0:45.0 | the war with Russia. Here he is in Geneva last Sunday, alongside the US Secretary of State, |
| 0:50.4 | Marco Rubio. |
| 0:51.6 | We have very good progress, and we are moving forward to the just and lasting peace. |
| 0:57.3 | And I hope that we can achieve the good progress today. |
| 1:03.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:04.1 | Let's get back to work, and we'll be back to you pretty soon, okay? |
| 1:07.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:08.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:09.4 | Well, today, Andre Yermak resigned after anti-corruption investigators raided his house in |
| 1:14.8 | Kiev. Here's part of President Zelensky's nightly television address voiced by a translator. |
| 1:20.9 | There will be a reboot of the office of the President of Ukraine. The chief of the office, |
| 1:26.3 | Andrea Yermak, has filed a resignation notice. I thank and we for of Ukraine. The chief of the office, Andrea Mock, has filed a resignation notice. |
| 1:29.4 | I think and we for representing Ukrainian position in negotiations always the way it had to be represented. |
| 1:36.2 | It was always a patriotic position, but I want to ensure that there is no room for gossip and |
| 1:42.0 | speculations. Regarding the new head of the office, |
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