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Exclusive: Zelensky’s ex-chief of staff Yermak ran 'troubling' back-channel with Trump’s Susie Wiles

U.S. President Donald Trump's former Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had a "troubling" back-channel with Andriy Yermak, the controversial former head of the President’s Office Head, the Kyiv Independent can exclusively reveal. The back-channel began after Trump's inauguration in January 2025, when President Volodymyr Zelensky tasked Yermak with establishing contacts with high-level American officials. Yermak and Wiles spoke frequently in the following months, two Ukrainian officials told the Kyiv I

Andriy Yermak poses for a portrait in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 25, 2024.
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