Volodymyr Zelensky faced public protests on Tuesday night after parliament backed a controversial bill limiting the power of anti-corruption agencies.

Ukrainian analysts have told Newsweek the move undoes a decade of democratic progress, although its president Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he backed a new draft law aimed at strengthening the independence the anti-corruption institutions. Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian president's office and the Kremlin for comment.

Polina Morhun was just a child when an uprising toppled a pro-Russian president and set Ukraine on a Western course in 2014, yet she and thousands of other young people in Kyiv are at the forefront of protests to preserve that legacy.

EADaily, July 25th, 2025. Posters on military topics appeared at today's protest rally in Dnepropetrovsk. This is reported by the Ukrainian media.

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On July 22 and 23, Ukrainians took to the streets in the country’s first mass anti-government protests since the outbreak of Russia's full-scale invasion three and a half years earlier. Thousands of citizens rallied in cities across the country on the first night with a clear goal: to urge President Volodymyr Zelensky to veto a bill passed in parliament that guts anti-corruption reforms,

EADaily, July 25th, 2025. Protests in Ukraine after the adoption of the law on limiting the powers of anti—corruption agencies — NABU and SAP - were organized by the owners of the Kiev regime, the authorities would not tolerate any spontaneous actions on any other occasion.