
Demonstrators protest in opposition to the invoice proposed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday.
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KYIV, Ukraine — After a public outcry and stress from the European Union, a brand new legislation is now in drive in Ukraine restoring the independence of state businesses investigating corruption.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched this invoice after dealing with his first main home political disaster since Russia’s full-scale invasion three and a half years in the past. He and Ukraine’s parliament reversed course after approving a earlier invoice to position anti-corruption businesses underneath a Zelenskyy-backed prosecutor.
Hundreds of Ukrainians took the streets in protest, calling it an authoritarian transfer.
“It is vitally necessary that the state listens to public opinion and hears its residents,” Zelenskyy mentioned in a video handle on Thursday. “Ukraine is a democracy for certain. There is no such thing as a doubt.”

Ukrainian lawmakers vote for a brand new invoice proposed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to revive the independence of the nation’s anti-corruption businesses, on the parliament session corridor in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2025.
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