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MindzEye
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But also the anti corruption agency having some rot in it might have legs
View: https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3lulaxj2zdp2y
View: https://bsky.app/profile/euromaidanpress.bsky.social/post/3lulaxj2zdp2y
MindzEye
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Editorial: Zelensky is one signature away from betraying Ukraine’s democracy
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 Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and Special...
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MindzEye
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The absence of western pressure seems to be considered part of the problem, yeah.
lecoqsportif
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Brussels is key here. Surely they know what is going on. But they are quiet?
lecoqsportif
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It’s weird.
MindzEye
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Telegram, Ukie Reddit, Ukie Bluesky/Twitter all seem pretty unified on this being a really bad thing and I'm having a hard time seeing the hole in their argument. Even if there was a problem with NABU, it's a requirement over Brussels' for eventual admittance into the EU, you don't scrap it or defang it, you fix it. This is a scary sign of the corrupt Ukie elite getting slid back in the direction of Moscow. If this persists, there will be huge protests, riots and very likely desertions from the front lines.
Wayward DP
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Do we know Zelensky’s position on the bill?
MindzEye
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lecoqsportif
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This is fundamentally what EuroMaidan was about.
MindzEye
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Kind of spooky how full circle we are here. I don't think Ukrainians are going to accept this.
worm
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He is gonna get big time rich now!
MindzEye
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View: https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3lulk3lonm223
So, one of the better "bad" takes that I've read suggested that the big difference between being indepedent and being under the direction of the office of the Prosecutor General is that it removes NABU & SAPO's ability to independently dig after corruption in weapons procurement for the war. The rest of their work appears to be most unaffected, the Prosecutor General has a pretty good track record of their own anti corruption investigations, as well as joint investigations with the two independent agencies (they took down a supreme court judge together in 2023).
So this is still ugly and depends on how much latitude you want to give Zelensky. The SSU has grabbed two high ranking guys at the anti corruption agencies for being Russian agents and Zelensky appears to be advancing that as the reasoning for why this is being done. Zelensky's administration has been better than the typical ukrainian government at rooting out and punishing corruption, so probably deserves some benefit of the doubt, but part of that success can be attributed to the agencies he just removed the independence of....so yeah, ffs.
