The head of Ukraine’s delegation negotiating for Kyiv on Ukraine’s peace plan resigned from office on Friday following a raid on his apartment — a day before he was scheduled to meet with the US team leading talks to end Russia’s war.

Andriy Yermak, who served as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief aide, submitted his resignation hours after Ukrainian’s state corruption investigators searched his residence in the early hours of the morning.

“NABU and SAP raided my apartment around 6 a.m. and searched it. This happened after a meeting in Geneva and on the eve of a weekend meeting in the US,” Yermak told The Post. “And immediately after my statement that we would not give up our territories.”

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak in Kyiv on Jan. 22, 2024. REUTERS

He did not mention his reason for resigning, however it came following weeks of domestic pressure following a corruption investigation into players on Zelensky’s staff.

“Yermak resigned because he wanted to cut off speculations,” Ukrainian Ambassador to the US exclusively Olga Stefanishya told The Post. “Searches at his home were made, but no procedural actions followed afterwards.”

Ukrainian Head of Presidential Office Andriy Yermak on March 26, 2025 in Paris. AFP via Getty Images

Ukraine’s anti-graft watchdog spent 15 months digging into a brazen shakedown dubbed “Operation Midas,” uncovering a scheme that allegedly forced Energoatom contractors to cough up 10 to 15 percent kickbacks — or risk getting blacklisted. 

Investigators say the crooks skimmed nearly $100 million off the top.

Zelensky said Yermak’s resignation allows Kyiv to keep the faith of the Ukrainian public as it continues a difficult phase of peace talks with the US to end the war with Russia.

Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak in Kyiv on Jan. 22, 2024. REUTERS

“I am grateful to Andriy that Ukraine’s position on the path of negotiations was always presented as required: it was always a patriotic position,” Zelensky said. “But I want there to be no rumors and speculation.”

“… When all attention is focused on diplomacy and defense in a war, internal strength is required,” he said.

Yermak on Thursday had told The Post he was headed to the US for further talks on the peace deal with American officials this weekend in Florida. 

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak in Spain on Nov. 18, 2025. REUTERS

A delegation of Ukrainians is headed to the US to participate in the talks in his place, senior Ukrainian officials told The Post. The talks will involve Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff, who is leading the peace negotiations for Washington.

Army Sec. Dan Driscoll is also headed to Ukraine on Saturday for continued talks with Kyiv on US peace plan efforts

Meanwhile, Kushner and Witkoff are headed to Moscow to handle the Russian side of negotiations, The Telegraph reported on Friday.

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Zelensky has already shuffled his negotiating team tasked with working on the peace plan with the US.

Remaining on the team is Ukrainian Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, who convinced Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff that Ukraine would capitulate to a heavily Russia-leaning 28-point peace plan that later proved unacceptable to Zelensky, senior US officials said.

Umerov will be part of the team headed to Florida this weekend to meet again with Witkoff.

Officers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) pass through a checkpoint in the government quarter in Kyiv on Nov. 28, 2025. Ukrainska Pravda/AFP via Getty Images

Last time they met, Umerov had added in a provision to that plan that would have absolved Ukraine of accountability for any possible corruption involving US aid, suggesting a point that would instead grant amnesty to both Ukraine and Russia for any acts during the war — to include heavily documented Russian war crimes.

A senior US administration official last week told The Post it was “fishy” for Umerov to have suggested that provision.

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“You will see that point 26 gives amnesty to all parties, meaning both Russia and Ukraine. OK, that was not the idea of the United States; the Ukrainians inserted that language,” the official said.

“The US had [that] ‘Ukraine will conduct a full audit of all aid receipts and create a legal mechanism to recover any errors found and punish those who illegally profited from the war’ — that’s something the American people want to see. That’s also something the Russians do support.”

“The Ukrainians rejected that, and they said, ‘No, we’d rather give amnesty to both sides of the war.’ ”

Ahead of his meeting with Witkoff, Umerov also met with FBI Director Kash Patel ahead of the meeting with Witkoff, according to multiple US and Ukrainian officials. The Post has been unable to confirm the content of their discussion.

The FBI declined to comment. The White House did not respond to requests for comment.