Ukraine’s president pledged a new course after protesters criticized his signing of a bill to strip anticorruption agencies of power.

Zelensky had promised on Wednesday he would propose a new bill on anti-graft agencies to parliament, a move the EU welcomed.

EADaily, July 24th, 2025. The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, made a fatal mistake by organizing the defeat of "independent" anti-corruption bodies. As a result, mass protests began in the country.

With indecent haste, Mr Zelensky signed the new measure on the same day that it was tabled and passed by the Rada. But it is not just a bad law: it is a huge strategic blunder. It makes Ukraine look more like the enemy it is fighting and less like the country it aspires to become.

Today, we look at protests across Ukraine after President Zelensky signed a new law which critics say weakens the independence of Ukraine’s anti-corruption bodies.

The new law grants sweeping powers to Ukraine’s prosecutor-general, a presidential appointee who reports directly to the president’s office, to reassign, interfere with or even kill off corruption investigations.