{"id":300010,"date":"2025-07-29T02:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300010\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:12:17","slug":"protests-against-zelenskyy-as-drones-torment-ukraine-podcast-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300010\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests against Zelenskyy as drones torment Ukraine &#8211; podcast | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">For the first time since the war began three years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ukraine\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> was the scene of major anti-government protests earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The Guardian\u2019s correspondent in the country, <strong>Luke Harding, <\/strong>heads to the streets of Kyiv to hear from protesters angry at Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s attempt to strip two key anti-corruption bodies of their independence \u2013 a move that he now seems to be retreating from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Harding tells <strong>Helen Pidd<\/strong> that the developments come at a difficult time for Ukraine. The UN estimates that Russian attacks killed more civilians in June than in any other month since the war began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Moscow is suffering huge casualties too, but seems unlikely to stop its offensive any time soon as it slowly gains territory in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">So what happens next in the war? And is there any chance that Zelenskyy\u2019s position is under threat?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Protesters in Kyiv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753755137_452_3538.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"356.20124364047484\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"\/> Photograph: Alex Babenko\/AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since the war began three years ago, Ukraine was the scene of major anti-government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-300010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114934103942287394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300010","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=300010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}