(2025-11-28). Zelensky's inner circle shaken: Top Aide Yermak resigns after corruption raid. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Reuters said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accepted the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, on Friday. This happened just hours after anti-corruption investigators searched Yermak's home as part of a larger investigation into corruption. | The sudden departure is a big step up in a political crisis that is shaking Kyiv at a bad time, as Ukraine is under more and more pressure from the U.S. to agree to the terms of a proposed peace deal with Russia. | Yermak, who was in charge of Ukraine's negotiating team in talks that were influenced by a recent U.S. draft proposal…
(2025-11-28). Peace Talks Amid Leadership Legitimacy Dispute. devdiscourse.com The Kremlin has expressed a willingness to advance peace efforts in Ukraine, even though it questions the legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a spokesman said on Friday.
(2025-11-28). Is Ukraine's corruption scandal engulfing Zelensky's inner circle? tehrantimes.com Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies have begun searching the apartment of President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak, the BBC reported. | One of the two agencies, anti-corruption bureau Nabu, confirmed that its investigative searches had been authorized and said further details would follow.
(2025-11-28). Expert: The West has suffered defeat on every front in Ukraine conflict. eng.belta.by The Ukrainian conflict is nearing its end, Andrei Vajra, editor-in-chief of the Alternativa information and analysis website, said in a recent episode of the V Teme [On Point] project on BelTA's YouTube Channel.
(2025-11-28). Hungary's Orban to meet Putin in Moscow on energy and Ukraine peace talks. moderndiplomacy.eu Hungary has maintained unusually close ties with Moscow despite the ongoing war in neighbouring Ukraine. The country remains heavily dependent on Russian energy, importing millions of tonnes of crude oil and billions of cubic meters of natural gas annually. While the European Union has sought to reduce reliance on Russian energy, Hungary has repeatedly secured …
(2025-11-28). New weapons emerging to counter and zap drone power. asiatimes.com 
Like so many conflicts before it, the Russo-Ukraine war has forced both sides to innovate. Since they have been able to gain control of opposition air space, neither side has made wide use of traditional air assets such as fast fighter jets. which take much time and money to manufacture and so can't be risked …
(2025-11-28). If Europe Pulls This Off, Putin Pays for Every Missile Ukraine Fires. thinktank.pk As Ukraine's front lines hold against relentless Russian advances, a fierce transatlantic debate is raging over one of the war's most tantalizing untapped weapons: $300 billion in frozen Russian central bank assets. Trapped in Western vaults since Moscow's 2022 invasion, these funds could supercharge Kyiv's war chest — but at what cost to global finance …