Some say Yermak is Zelenskyy’s producer, helping the former TV comic perform his biggest role, a life-and-death one played on a global stage.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has proposed that — a way to Trump-proof the group if the former U.S. president is reelected.
"I think it not right to make a choice between our good friends," he says.
He talks proudly about his family and how principled his parents are — his father is 78.
His mother was born in St Petersburg but has lived for half-a-century in Ukraine; his Jewish father was born in Kyiv, as he was.
He shakes his head about the rumor that his father was a KGB officer because he worked for a while in Afghanistan.
Yermak, who led Ukraine’s negotiations team with the Russians early in the war, said a deal with Moscow is now utterly impossible. »
