After the vote, Zelenskyy immediately signed the new bill into law.<\/p>\n
Many current MPs are subjects of NABU investigations. The agency has charged<\/a> 71 current and former MPs with corruption, 42 of them during the period between 2022 and 2025. Thirty-one of the charged MPs still sit in the Ukrainian parliament.<\/p>\n While many of the lawmakers implicitly admitted they erred originally in scuttling the independence of NABU and SAP, some Ukrainian political heavyweights \u2014 such as former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko \u2014 defended the controversial vote last week.<\/p>\n \u201cThis bill, the president submitted under colossal pressure, is not about NABU and SAP, and not about the fight against corruption. NABU and SAP are organs of political pressure on Ukraine\u2019s government from outside. We are not a country that can be ruled by foreign powers as a dog on a leash,\u201d Tymoshenko said during the parliament session on Thursday. \u201cI don\u2019t care who takes away our sovereignty, East or West.\u201d<\/p>\n At the same time, Tymoshenko said she does not believe the EU will take away funding if Ukraine stops reforms, and said that by voting to strip SAP of its independence, she was actually fighting foreign governance of Ukraine, the same narrative Russia pushes<\/a> to justify its full-scale invasion. \u00a0<\/p>\n