‘Kyiv Independent’ Editorial: Zelensky just betrayed Ukraine’s democracy — and everyone fighting for it

https://kyivindependent.com/editorial-dark-hour-for-ukrainian-democracy/

Posted by 1DarkStarryNight

7 comments

  1. Why should Zelensky share power with unelected EU bureaucrats on Ukrainian politics?

    Especially when it was the AFU & not the armies of EU nations that fought & bled against Russia.

  2. This is worrying from Ukraine’s government, but it is good to see that there are protests against this bill-now-law. The people of Ukraine supported the maidan protests in part because they were sick of corrupt officials and wanted to turn towards the west. Zelenskyy and his team corroding independent anti-corruption is a move in the wrong direction.

    Ukraine will struggle to join the western coalition unless it tackles its corruption issues, and corruption in defense procurement, while common, degrades Ukraines ability to defend against Russia.

    This is a bad move. I hope EU leaders will insist on anti-corruption measures. I know my government won’t do shit as we have one of the most corrupt presidents in recent history sitting in the White House.

  3. this issue is not as clear as the editorial would have you think

    Russian agents did infiltrate NABU, that was a huge problem

    the issue of transparency was a huge problem, NABU was supposed to be transparent but had abandoned that and become a hidden bureaucracy

    a investigatory body cant really be totally real time transparent or it cant conduct an investigation without alerting the criminals what to hide and when to hide it, but without transparency it can absorb funds as a process of expanding its footprint and status and become the source of corruption itself

    EU demands for peacetime governmental structure during wartime with such a politically disruptive opponent as Russia is not functional

    waiting to see the further developments before I pass judgement on this issue

  4. I would have thought the big betrayal of democracy would have been when he arrested the vast majority of opposition parliamentarians & suspended elections to make sure no new opposition could come in. That action directly enabled this one.

  5. Is a war. You cannot have both a democracy and total war. This is a study case of propaganda taking a life of its own and believing its own tales of democracy and transparency.

  6. there’s a really good comment on the ukraine sub explaining why this is good necessary thing.

    It boils down to the GRU being infiltrated by ruzzian agents and the heads of the departments not even fighting the allegations.

  7. A reminder that accusing somebody of being a Russian agent [apparently justifies pretty much everything](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/former-ukrainian-politician-andriy-portnov-shot-dead-outside-madrid-school), including a bullet to the back of the head execution stlye.

    That’s how Ukrainian SBU employee [Denys Kireyev](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Kireyev) was killed on 5 March 2022 by… the Ukrainian SBU for allegedly being a double agent for Russia.

    Denys Kireyev was part of the Ukrainian diplomatic mission that went to negotiations to Belarus in early 2022, the ones that [resulted in Russia pulling back from Kyiv](https://www.dw.com/en/russia-pledges-to-scale-down-military-activity-near-kyiv-chernihiv-as-it-happened/a-61286047).

    Who knows what they agreed to get that, and who knows what role Denys Kireyev played in that to be worthy to be killed over.

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