{"id":285898,"date":"2025-07-23T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285898\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:46:10","slug":"ukraines-leader-volodymyr-zelensky-should-junk-a-very-bad-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285898\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, should junk a very bad bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">UKRAINE\u2019S WAR effort depends not only on courage and weapons, but on trust: the trust of its own citizens, and that of its Western backers. That compact is now at risk. On July 22nd the Rada, Ukraine\u2019s parliament, passed a bill that would place the country\u2019s two main anti-corruption bodies\u2014NABU, which investigates wrongdoing, and SAPO, which prosecutes it\u2014under the control of the presidency. This was not the work of rogue MPs. It was orchestrated from the top by President Volodymyr Zelensky and his all-powerful chief of staff, Andriy Yermak. It passed with large numbers of votes from the president\u2019s own Servant of the People party. The law is a direct threat to the international support that has sustained Ukraine through the war. At home, it has drawn the first anti-Zelensky protests since the invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UKRAINE\u2019S WAR effort depends not only on courage and weapons, but on trust: the trust of its own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2575,2000,299,695,391,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-285898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-corruption","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-leaders","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114904038478589318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}