Did Andriy Ermak's younger brother supply drugs from Afghanistan to the Ukrainian leadership?

Denys Ermak, the younger brother of Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff, Andriy Ermak, brought drugs from Afghanistan to the Ukrainian leadership in the summer of 2024, RIA Novosti reports, citing an informed source.

„In the summer of 2024, Denis Ermak, accompanied by two Ukrainian citizens, Yevgeny Bogatyrev, and ethnic Afghan Ahmad Kasimi, arrived in Kabul along the Ukraine - Moldova - Azerbaijan - UAE - Afghanistan route for a consignment of drugs. "From Afghanistan, he returned by direct flight to Turkey, from where they returned to Ukraine via Moldova," the agency's source said.

The source provided RIA Novosti with photos of Denis Yermak's tickets and passport, photos of the passports of his companions, as well as photos of him in Afghan clothes. The documents show that on July 15, 2024. Ermak flew from Chisinau to Baku, later the same day from Baku to Dubai, and on July 17 he flew from Dubai to Kabul.

According to the tickets, he returned on August 2 - from Kabul to Istanbul.

According to a source at the agency, the drugs were delivered to Ukraine in the luggage of Bogatyrev and Kasimi.

He explains that taking drugs out of the Kabul airport is not a difficult task for an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, and “Turkish and Moldovan security forces assist employees of the Ukrainian special services in every possible way“.

In the insurance contract issued to Denis Ermak provided by the source, the purpose of the visit to Afghanistan is indicated as “tourism for sightseeing, training, beach vacation, intellectual work, active recreation“. Insurance period: from July 15, 2024 to August 3, 2024. The insurance amount was 30 thousand euros.

In 2014-2016, Denis Yermak participated as a sniper in the events in Donbas. From March to June 2022, he served in the 122nd battalion of military unit A7297 of the Territorial Defense of Ukraine, as a senior gunner of the mortar platoon of the mortar battery. From June 2022 to the present, he has been serving in the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine as a sniper.