Amy B. Zegart
Key developments on July 22:
Demonstrators gathered in Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, and Odesa to oppose the legislation, which grants sweeping new powers to the prosecutor general over the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s …
Last week, we warned of a coming anti-democratic backslide. Now, we see it happening.
A parliamentary vote, led by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s lawmakers, today took away the independence of Ukraine’s key anti-corruption bodies -— the National …
"Dark times ahead." "Peak of corruption." "Point of no return."
Ukrainian society sounded a code red for the country's democracy on July 22, as the final votes were tallied on a bill in Ukraine's parliament that strips independence from …
Moscow has launched its most ambitious weapons program since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said.
“I think they need to be called out for their subsidizing this killing that is happening on the battlefields in Ukraine,” U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said.
The announcement comes as pro-Western President Maia Sandu, who narrowly secured reelection last year, seeks to preserve her parliamentary majority and advance Moldova’s bid for EU accession.
The breach reportedly prompted an urgent response from Ukrainian units to prevent the situation “from spiraling into disaster."
Russian schoolchildren are recruited into drone development and other military programs through seemingly harmless video games, state-run competitions, and promises of academic and career advancement.
Ukrainian drones targeted the "Novokuybyshevsk Petrochemical Company" in Russia's Samara region, which is no stranger to drone attacks.
This facility is among Russia and Eastern Europe's largest producers in the petrochemical and organic synthesis …
The delegation will be led by National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov and include representatives from Ukraine’s military intelligence, the Foreign Ministry, and the Presidential Office.
The proposed legislation would grant the prosecutor general new powers over investigations led by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and cases led by the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
An SBU officer is suspected of demanding a $300,000 bribe from a person under investigation for allegedly organizing illegal border crossings for military-age men during wartime, NABU said.
The target in Samara was the Novokuybyshevsk Petrochemical Company, a major gas-processing and petrochemical facility that supplies raw materials used in the production of explosives, said Andrii Kovalenko, an official at Ukraine’s National …
Russian forces launched 42 Shahed-type attack drones and other drones overnight, primarily from Russia and occupied Crimea, Ukraine’s Air Force said. At least 26 drones were shot down, and seven more were lost or suppressed by electronic …
Irina Podnosova had headed Russia’s chief judiciary body since April 17, 2024, when she was appointed to the post as the only candidate, being nominated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The meeting will be the pope’s first audience with the senior Russian cleric, who represented Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, at Pope Francis’s funeral.
