Overview

• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed legislation on July 22 transferring the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) beneath the prosecutor general’s authority.
• The new law empowers the prosecutor general to reassign or withdraw high-profile cases from NABU and SAPO, raising fears of political interference in graft probes.
• Thousands rallied in Kyiv and across Ukraine demanding that Zelenskyy veto the measure, marking the largest domestic protests since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
• European Commission and Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos condemned the change as a serious setback for rule of law and warned it could jeopardize Ukraine’s EU membership bid.
• Ukraine’s government bond prices fell as investors reacted to concerns over weakened anti-corruption safeguards during wartime.