Putin weaponizes Ukrainian protests in bid to undermine Zelensky

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-isw-putin-zelensky-2103506?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main

by newsweek

6 comments

  1. By Brendan Cole — Senior News Reporter |

    The Kremlin is exploiting discontent in Ukraine at its parliament’s move to put anti-corruption watchdogs under the control of the prosecutor general, the Institute for the Study of War has said.

    The think tank’s assessment follows protests sparked by concerns that Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) would no longer be able to operate independently to fight graft.

    Ukrainian analysts have told Newsweek the move undoes a decade of democratic progress, although its president Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he backed a new draft law aimed at strengthening the independence the anti-corruption institutions.

    Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-isw-putin-zelensky-2103506](https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-isw-putin-zelensky-2103506)

  2. Does he think the Ukrainian military will suddenly go home and Russian scooters and donkeys will head to Kyiv?

  4. Yep if they are already talking Russia propaganda they will eat this up. Others who aren’t that unintelligent have already moved on.

  5. Anyone want to bet that “corruption concerns” will delay any US support?

  6. Nonsense! It’s a giant win for the Ukrainian civil society, and a horrifying example for the Russian mafia state.

Comments are closed.