Ukraine parliament to vote on law to restore powers of anti-corruption bodies | Ukraine

On Thursday, the Ukrainian Parliament will vote for a new law that will restore independence to the anti -corruption organ on Thursday and return to a law that restricts its forces last week and leads to a political crisis.

Last week’s legal changes caused rare war -time street protests against President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the charges of the presidential office trying to protect stronger partners from corruption investigations.

As thousands of people entered the streets of Kiev and other cities, European leaders spoke to Zelenskyy and made it clear that the fund may be affected for Kiev if it was seen that they prevented their efforts to fight against corruption.

Surprised by the power of the reaction, Zelenskyy, who was worried, announced that he was listening to criticism late last week and would make a new law.

A Kiev -based Western diplomat said: “Apparently they are really wrongly calculated, they completely underestimated the power of the reaction.”

Approximately 2,000 protesters on Wednesday evening came out in rainy conditions in rainy conditions to invite the new law to support the new law. The protesters, many of whom were young, hired manual signs with political jokes and memes. They said the national anthem and “Cancel the law!” They shouted.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said the government hopes to correct the situation with the new law. Sybiha, “Tomorrow we are guessing.

The institutions in question are the National Anti -Corruption Office and the Anti -Corruption Prosecutor’s Office SAPO. Both work independently of other law enforcement organs, especially to target high -level corruption.

SAPO President Oleksandr Klymanko said a small group of journalists at a briefing in his office in Kiev on Wednesday, that his office took a clue in which measures were prepared two weeks ago, but did not expect the “Blitzkrieg” attack following it.

The Minister said he hoped that the parliament will now pass the new law and will be approved immediately and enter into force.

Zelenskyy, who announced the law hurriedly adopted last week, said that Nabu and Sapo were afraid that he had infiltrated by Russian agents and also wanted to provide closer cooperation between different law enforcement organs. However, this was brushed as an excuse by many Ukrainians.

Klymenko personally refused to blame Zelenskyy to move against the two institutions, but claimed that it was “revenge, to seize certain sensitive cases and defended the registry of the two organs.

“It is ridiculous to say that these bodies are ineffective in 2025. We have information that they seek information to pour into the media to discredit us, and we are looking for a narrative that spreads to the media to discredit us somehow.”

Klymenko said that Nabu and Sapo have opened an investigation to 31 seating deputies and that the likelihood of getting less high -level officials is at risk of degenerating activities. “The most important thing about our study is the enormous preventive effect it has,” he said.

He said that the law of the last week and the arrest of two Nabu detectives left the agencies “mixed and scared ve and could cause“ permanent damage ”even if the bill was reversed. Already, the government informants who communicate with agencies have been darkened and their identities may be in danger, he said.

A few European leaders spoke to Zelenskyy about the law last week and called on to find a way out of the crisis. “It was important for him to hear this from his peers, Dipl Diplomat said. European authorities carefully criticized the bill in the public.

“Removal of the main measures that protect [anti-corruption bureau] Nabu’s independence has returned to a serious step. ” written on social media. The authority added that the two bodies were “necessary” to keep Ukraine on the way to EU participation.

Dmytro Koziatynskyi, a former war doctor who first called people to protest last week, said that a protest was planned for Kiev on Wednesday evening to “remind the deputies to do the right thing”.

“This is not something I went to the war… And the others on the front line are not there, so the government can do such crazy things,” he said.

He said that the protest did not have the chance to turn into revolutionary and that everyone was aware of the dangers of political instability during the war. The government praised for “ready for dialogue ve and returned to moves, and said that the protests showed that Ukrainian democracy is still strong, although the war made elections impossible.