Overview

• On July 24, Zelensky introduced a draft law to parliament that would reinstate legal protections ensuring full autonomy for Ukraine’s anticorruption agencies.
• The corrective proposal follows the July 22 enactment of a law that had placed NABU and SAPO under the prosecutor general, prompting rare wartime antigovernment protests.
• Thousands of Ukrainians rallied in Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro and Odessa despite martial law to demand preservation of agency independence.
• Brussels offered cautious approval of the new bill, with EU officials warning that judicial safeguards remain vital for financial aid and EU accession.
• Kyiv defends the initial centralization by citing recent Security Service raids aimed at purging suspected Russian agents from anticorruption bodies.