During a hearing at Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court over pretrial restrictions for former Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak, an SAPO prosecutor revealed messages between Yermak and a woman investigators refer to as “Veronika Feng Shui.” According to the prosecutor, she advised Yermak to act more aggressively against critics and consider leaving Ukraine.
According to investigators, the woman is Veronika Anikievich. Prosecutors say she had a separate iPhone 12 used exclusively for communication with Yermak. In the correspondence, he was allegedly saved under the name “Andriy 2025.”
According to the investigation, on December 24, 2025, Anikievich wrote to the contact “Andriy 2025” that she was angry over his inaction and his “ostrich strategy.” The prosecutor quoted the message in court.
“For months now, you have not escalated and have not responded to attacks. Both of you are being psychologically terrorized. The situation is worsening, yet you remain silent. What has to happen for you to start acting? Once they finish with you, they will come for him. If you continue the ostrich strategy, that is exactly what will happen. The situation is such that either you—or they destroy you,” the message said.
In response, according to investigators, Yermak sent her a list of names that included members of parliament and journalists.
“Fiala, Ukrainska Pravda, Tkach, Musayeva, Zhelezniak, Arakhamia, Honcharenko. I’m ready for anything. Ready tomorrow,” he allegedly wrote, according to the prosecutor.
After that, Anikievich advised him to consider leaving Ukraine. In her reply, read aloud by the prosecutor, she said Yermak was currently worried “about paperwork and arrest,” but investigators still lacked “serious evidence.”
“After that, you will gain the moral and legal right to destroy them. But if they gain power, they will act more seriously and there will no longer be a guarantor friend or broad powers. The best outcome would be if you manage to leave the country in time.
Think about it. And about the fact that if you could go back one or two months, you would act completely differently,” the message said.
Separately, the prosecutor stated that in 2020-2021, Yermak, according to information found on the seized phone, coordinated appointments of candidates to senior state positions. On December 24, 2025, investigators claim he sent Anikievich a message containing the names Klymenko and Kryvonos—a reference to the heads of SAPO and NABU.
Journalists from Schemes reported that “Veronika Feng Shui” is Veronika Anikievich, who runs the Telegram channel “Moon Clocks” посвященный astrology. On the channel, she writes that she “helps people through her knowledge of astrology.” The channel is operated in Russian.
According to Schemes, Anikievich stated on employment websites that she graduated from Kherson State Technical University and that her professional background is connected to corporate accounting and finance.
Journalists also found social media posts by Anikievich expressing support for Yermak and accusing anti-corruption agencies of having “sold out to the Russians and helping push through capitulation.” Those posts, like her Telegram channel, were written in Russian.
In addition, according to Schemes, social media materials indicate that Anikievich’s father lives in Henichesk and supports Russia: in photographs, he is seen posing with a Russian flag and a St. George ribbon.