Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a press conference amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 22, 2025. Tetiana Dzhafarova/ AFP via Getty Images
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a contentious law granting the country’s prosecutor general control of anti-corruption agencies, triggering backlash from officials, protests, and warnings from European Union officials about Kyiv’s commitment to rule-of-law reforms.
The new bill, signed on July 22, allows the prosecutor general to reassign prosecutors and transfer cases from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), two agencies formed after Ukraine’s 2014 revolution to combat high-level corruption.
