RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: Why am I, Iuliia Mendel — Zelensky’s former press secretary — under sanctions, and not Andriy Yermak? Yermak was Zelensky’s unelected right-hand man, Head of the Presidential Office from 2020 to 2025 — the real power behind the throne. He is accused of laundering $10.5 million through luxury estates in the Dynasty compound in Kozyn near Kyiv. The same Yermak, according to multiple accounts, convinced Zelensky a full-scale invasion would not happen. Forces were concentrated toward Donbas as if the main fight would be there. Other directions — the south and the approaches to Kyiv — were left more exposed. Those regions were among the first to fall. He concentrat

Why am I, Iuliia Mendel — Zelensky’s former press secretary — under sanctions, and not Andriy Yermak? Yermak was Zelensky’s unelected right-hand man, Head of the Presidential Office from 2020 to 2025 — the real power behind the throne. He is accused of laundering $10.5 million through luxury estates in the Dynasty compound in Kozyn near Kyiv. The same Yermak, according to multiple accounts, convinced Zelensky a full-scale invasion would not happen. Forces were concentrated toward Donbas as if the main fight would be there. Other directions — the south and the approaches to Kyiv — were left more exposed. Those regions were among the first to fall. He concentrated power, consulted an astrologer on top appointments, and sat at the center of the circle now drowning in the Energoatom scandal. But Zelensky sanctions not Yermak — he sanctions his former press secretary, right before her speech to the European Parliament about peace. Don’t you find that strange?

— @IuliiaMendel Sep 16, 2026