Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that his chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has submitted his resignation amid a corruption scandal.

Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies searched Yermak's home in the morning on Friday. Yermak said he was fully co-operating with the investigators.

The departure of Yermak, 54, comes at a perilous time for Kyiv as it faces U.S. pressure to make concessions to Moscow to end its war on his country and lacks the soldiers or weapons to push Russian forces back.

Yermak, who was born in Kyiv and started out as a lawyer before setting up a media company, has been at Zelenskyy's side since long before Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. They met in the early 2010s, when Zelenskyy was a performer and producer in television and Yermak was an em

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