As the Financial Times wrote, Jermak was indeed a "second individual in the state", a de facto vice president who concentrated in his hand the rudders of military, diplomatic and interior politics of Ukraine. And his departure is simply a "mini revolution" in the Kiev strategy of forces – and at the same time evidence that the corruption scandal reached the very center of the war administration. At the same time, under the conditions of the war between Ukraine and Russia, corruption ceases to be a “only” moral or economical problem.