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Editorial: Zelensky just betrayed Ukraine's democracy — and everyone fighting for it
Kyiv Independent ^ | 7/22 | Staff

Posted on 07/23/2025 8:50:40 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods

Last week, we warned of a coming anti-democratic backslide. Now, we see it happening.

A parliamentary vote, led by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s lawmakers, today took away the independence of Ukraine’s key anti-corruption bodies — the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO). Zelensky signed it into law the same day.

Under the new law, the prosecutor general, a notoriously non-independent figure, will now oversee anti-corruption investigations — in a complete overturn of the system that was set up to be independent from other law enforcement bodies.

In reality, it means that Zelensky’s office will be able to stop investigations with a phone call.

The move isn’t an isolated incident, but part of a massive crackdown.

The vote in parliament followed an unprecedented wave of raids on dozens of NABU officers’ homes the day before, where pretexts for searches ranged from drug trafficking accusations to car accidents from four years ago. The NABU chief said some searches got violent. A local media outlet reported that officers forced open a NABU detective’s eyes to unlock his phone, set on face recognition.

It also closely follows an escalated prosecution of Ukraine’s best-known anti-corruption activist, an outspoken critic of Zelensky.

(Excerpt) Read more at kyivindependent.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: angryneoconsbelow; beggarofkiev; greengrifter; littledictator; putinthewarpig; russiankeywordtroll; russiansuicide; russiantrollfarm; ukraine; vladtheimploder; vlodthewanker; zelya; zestinky
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Sounds like there's trouble in paradise.
1 posted on 07/23/2025 8:50:40 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods
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To: SaxxonWoods

Romanian term limits may come to Ukraine.


2 posted on 07/23/2025 8:56:35 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Yikes, this probably means we’ll lose the daily treats of Maximousse, as it will undoubtedly extinguish his (her?) zeal for the cause.

There’s no recovery from this... or is there?


3 posted on 07/23/2025 8:57:41 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: C210N

These “anti-corruption” groups were started by Soros back in 2014. President Trump told Z to nuke them as payback for their involvement in the Impeachment Hoax. We all knew these Soros groups would do this after their USAID money was cut off.

Let’s me know when President Trump and Secretary Rubio condemn what Z did to these Soros groups.


4 posted on 07/23/2025 9:01:07 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: C210N

Flashback:

Hannity Guests Claim George Soros’ ‘Dirty Money’ Backed Ukraine Whistleblower Report: ‘This Was a Set-Up’

“That was George Soros-funded NGOs who were also in bed with the State Department. They were in bed with each other during that time, in the name of anti-corruption and it really means that Soros goes after his competitors.”

“Now, let me bring this full circle, this is my last point here,” she continued. “The whistle-blower sprinkles throughout his document’s footnotes referring to a publication with the initials ‘OCCRP.’ One guess, Sean, who funds OOCRP? George Soros.”

https://www.newsweek.com/hannity-guests-claim-george-soros-dirty-money-backed-ukraine-whistleblower-report-this-was-1461715


5 posted on 07/23/2025 9:02:33 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: C210N

Ukraine has to get rid of that idiot and hold a proper election before it’s too late.


6 posted on 07/23/2025 9:02:33 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: marcusmaximus
Bwahaha, perfect. The intrigue!
7 posted on 07/23/2025 9:04:06 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: SaxxonWoods

“ Sounds like there’s trouble in paradise.”

Isn’t this what Biden said about his famous “if they don’t do what we say we will pull funding” to the media?


8 posted on 07/23/2025 9:04:27 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (TDS much?)
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To: SaxxonWoods

A Maidan coup against Zelensky has been set in operation….
General Zaluzhnyi is prob being briefed in London
Trump is to visit UK in September
Trump has ordered Putin to end the war by September
The chess pieces are being moved

Dateline Feb 2024

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/zelenskyy-fires-general-valeriy-zaluzhnyi-ukraine-rcna136512

“A popular figure who came to embody Ukraine’s fighting spirit, Zaluzhnyi is widely respected both at home and abroad. In dispensing with him, Zelenskyy may sharpen the focus on his own leadership as Ukraine battles a new offensive from the Kremlin’s forces and doubts over the continued supply of military assistance from the United States and other governments.”


9 posted on 07/23/2025 9:04:45 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Soros “anti-corruption” activists mad that President Trump cut off their USAID funding and Zelensky took the next step to cut them off. Lol!


10 posted on 07/23/2025 9:05:23 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: SaxxonWoods

I am doubtful that the body itself wasn’t already corrupt. If not, they weren’t doing their job.


11 posted on 07/23/2025 9:05:46 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: SaxxonWoods

“”Sounds like there’s trouble in paradise.””

Sounds like exactly how they wanted to set things up here in the USA... via a totalitarian dictatorship with no accountability that does nothing but thwart the will of the people.... ie the very opposite of “democracy”. What a coinkydence. Especially that the very same ones trying to set that up here in the US were all-in and onboard with full support of Z in Ukraine.


12 posted on 07/23/2025 9:05:46 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: SaxxonWoods

Nothing new, they are known in the financial industry as THE most corrupted, their banking is tied at the hip of their corrupted government leaders.

Their credit is now rated at a “D”, deadbeats, they have a long history of, since 1991, of defaulting on many loans.


13 posted on 07/23/2025 9:06:39 AM PDT by delta7
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To: SaxxonWoods

The Great Neo-Nazi Dicktater.


14 posted on 07/23/2025 9:06:47 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: SaxxonWoods

National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO)? We ain’t got no NABU and SAPO. We don’t need no stinkin’ NABU and SAPO.


15 posted on 07/23/2025 9:06:51 AM PDT by House Atreides (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVFlcTy0DcI’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX>)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Democracy!! Oh my sides.


16 posted on 07/23/2025 9:06:56 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Both the anti-Russian and pro-Russian parties in the Ukrainian parliament voted overwhelmingly for the law. A sign the war might be ending soon and they don’t want the Sorosites involved the postwar politics.


17 posted on 07/23/2025 9:09:33 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus; SaxxonWoods
Soros “anti-corruption” activists mad that President Trump cut off their USAID funding and Zelensky took the next step to cut them off. Lol!

What Pokrovsk doink?

Belgorod in 3 days!

Bring your parade mortar trowels! We might capture a Russian concrete plant!

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18 posted on 07/23/2025 9:10:55 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus

Care to provide proof for your claim that Trump directed Zelenskyy to eliminate NABU, or that Soros created NABU?


19 posted on 07/23/2025 9:11:48 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: SaxxonWoods

These recent moves to de-fang the watch dogs go against the reforms needed to join the EU. They are certain to notice.

Rushing this change through at the same time as a big Goverment re-shuffle at the top, may have been an attempt to hide it in the noise.

Among those moved in the Government re-shuffle, was Defense Minister Umerov - A famously “Mr. Clean” anti-corruption figure, proposed as the new Ambassador to the USA. That would get him out of the country, while the former Prime Minister takes over the Ministry of Defense (perhaps the biggest pot of money for potential corruption, of any Ministry in the Government).

It looks really bad. Good chance that they have to back off of this recent change.


20 posted on 07/23/2025 9:12:23 AM PDT by BeauBo
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