President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has discussed with representatives of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) and the government the upcoming vote on Thursday on draft laws to restore the independence of anti-corruption bodies,

Activists on Wednesday called for more protests of a new law that they say weakens Ukraine’s anti-corruption watchdogs, following the first major anti-government demonstration in over three years of war.

By Brian Dooley and Suchita Uppal What happened and why does it matter? On July 22, Ukraine’s parliament passed Draft Law No. 12414, handing over major control over the country’s anti-corruption institutions — the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO)- to the Prosecutor General’s Office.