KYIV, Ukraine >> President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s powerful chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, resigned today in the highest-level political realignment in Ukraine since Russia’s all-out invasion nearly four years ago.

The departure of Yermak, who had headed Ukraine’s negotiating team in peace talks with the Trump administration, put in doubt the future of the latest round of diplomatic efforts by the United States, Ukraine and European nations to end the war.

It also cost Zelenskyy a longtime close ally who had been a behind-the-scenes operator, a political enforcer and, as Ukraine’s fortunes in the war slumped, a lightning rod for criticism over much of what had gone wrong, including allegations of theft from state companies.

Yermak stepped down amid a spiraling, $100 million embezzlement s

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