{"id":2384,"date":"2025-11-26T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:33:21","slug":"zelensky-aide-looked-gutted-after-trump-rejected-kievs-spin-on-peace-plan-nyp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/26\/zelensky-aide-looked-gutted-after-trump-rejected-kievs-spin-on-peace-plan-nyp\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky aide looked \u2018gutted\u2019 after Trump rejected Kiev\u2019s spin on peace plan \u2013 NYP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andrey Yermak\u2019s face reportedly \u201cdropped\u201d when the US president declined to endorse Ukraine\u2019s version of the roadmap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, was visibly shaken after US President Donald Trump publicly rejected Kiev\u2019s portrayal of progress on a proposed peace plan with Russia, the New York Post reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Yermak was in the middle of an interview with the outlet when Trump posted on Truth Social that he did not consider the proposal discussed in Geneva last week to be finalized. According to the report, Yermak had spent the previous 30 minutes portraying the document as a nearly completed joint Trump-Zelensky roadmap that could be signed over the Thanksgiving holiday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUpon reading the full post, Yermak\u2019s face dropped, apparently gutted by the news,\u201d<\/em> the New York Post wrote. Asked to comment, he reportedly requested 24 hours <em>\u201cto assess the new reality.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6925c92385f54043ec7116d2.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/628400-ukraine-us-peace-plan\/\">A Ukraine peace plan: Where things stand \u2013 and why the West still isn\u2019t on the same page<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump stated that he would dispatch Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to continue talks with Kiev, while special envoy Steve Witkoff would engage with Moscow. The president added that he would meet with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky <em>\u201csoon, but ONLY when the deal to end this War is FINAL or, in its final stages.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previous reports have suggested that Yermak is deeply unpopular among many in Trump\u2019s circle and across the broader US political establishment. A source quoted by Politico in July described him as a <em>\u201cbipartisan irritator.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Ukraine, Yermak has long been accused of wielding inappropriate influence over Zelensky and national policy. Following the recent indictment of long-time Zelensky associate Timur Mindich on charges of running a $100 million kickbacks scheme, several commentators alleged that Yermak may have had a leading role in the network and urged his removal. Last week, Witkoff reportedly canceled a planned meeting with Yermak after learning the extent of the corruption scandal engulfing Kiev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Yermak\u2019s face reportedly \u201cdropped\u201d when the US president declined to endorse Ukraine\u2019s version of the roadmap Ukrainian leader Vladimir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}