Posted on 07/22/2025 2:42:51 PM PDT by McGruff
Thousands of people gathered in the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday night to protest moves by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government to weaken anticorruption institutions, in the country’s first major antigovernment demonstration in 3½ years of war.
The protest outside the president’s office in central Kyiv, including civilians and soldiers, was the most significant fracture so far in the national unity that has helped Ukraine survive a grueling and bloody fight against a Russian invasion. The government did not immediately make a statement on the gathering.
“My husband is in the trenches and this is not what they are fighting for,” said Kateryna Amelina, 31. “This could be the destruction of 10 years of work by civil society.”
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Oh no.
The demonstration, promoted widely on social media, came hours after Ukraine’s Parliament, controlled by Mr. Zelensky’s party, passed a measure that would strip away the independence of two agencies responsible for investigating and prosecuting corruption. Protesters called on Mr. Zelensky to veto the legislation, which would give Ukraine’s prosecutor general, appointed by the president, new powers over anticorruption agencies.
On Monday, the security services raided the offices of the two agencies, which have been looking into people in Mr. Zelensky’s circle, claiming that they had been infiltrated by Russian intelligence.
“protest moves by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government to weaken anticorruption institutions”
So the most corrupt nation on the face of the earth is weakening its anticorruption institutions? How much worse can it get?
As expected now that the neocons/globalists want him gone.
On a recent The Duran episode, they said that the powers that be are done with the Z-man.
Is this a USAID color revolution?
Using up those last checks in the check-book?
"On Monday, the security services raided the offices of the two agencies, which have been looking into people in Mr. Zelensky’s circle, claiming that they had been infiltrated by Russian intelligence."
Just like Noriega.
President Trump wanted these groups gone. They were the collaborators with the demoRats in the impeachment nonsense.
The world needs to be done with the Z-man.
Flashback:
Ukraine’s young corruption fighters struggle against elites — and Donald Trump
In public appearances, Giuliani painted the anti-corruption group as a dubious tool of George Soros, the Hungarian-born philanthropist who founded the Open Society Foundations. Like many pro-democracy groups across Europe, Kaleniuk’s organization receives funding from Open Society, last year to the tune of about $150,000, or about a quarter of the Ukrainian group’s budget.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-11-14/ukraines-young-corruption-fighters
Z just took out the groups that tried to help the Rats impeach President Trump. Sorosbots are crying.
This sounds bad for the Z. Why would the Times publish it?
YouCraynee just as corrupt as Ruzzia.
Sorosbots are in tears. Lol!
Irony alert:
The crowd grew on Tuesday evening as the sun set on a hill just above Maidan Square, where more than a decade ago crowds gathered to protest the corruption of the Kremlin-aligned president at the time, Viktor F. Yanukovych, leading to his ouster.
“It is a very sad moment because for me it means we are going back in time when we had this same discussion,” said Mustafa Nayyem, a former member of Parliament who took part in the earlier protests.
“It is very sad and very dangerous,” he said.
Stop pimping for Soros!
US Embassy pressed Ukraine to drop probe of George Soros group during 2016 election
While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).
The focus on AntAC — whose youthful street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts — was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted.
The prosecutors soon would learn the resistance they faced was blowing directly from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, where the Obama administration took the rare step of trying to press the Ukrainian government to back off its investigation of both the U.S. aid and the group.
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