Wartime Protests in Ukraine Target Zelensky for the First Time

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Thousands of people gathered in the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday night to protest moves by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government to weaken anticorruption institutions, in the country’s first major antigovernment demonstration in three and a half years of war.

The protest outside the president’s office in central Kyiv, including civilians and soldiers, was the most significant fracture so far in the national unity that has helped Ukraine survive a grueling and bloody fight against a Russian invasion. The government did not immediately make a statement on the gathering.

“My husband is in the trenches and this is not what they are fighting for,” said Kateryna Amelina, 31. “This could be the destruction of 10 years of work by civil society.”

The demonstration, promoted widely on social media, came hours after Ukraine’s Parliament, controlled by Mr. Zelensky’s party, passed a measure stripping away the independence of two agencies responsible for investigating and prosecuting corruption. It gives Ukraine’s prosecutor general, appointed by the president, new powers over anticorruption agencies.

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And they get all worked up about Hungary. Maybe Bono and Ben Stiller should reach out to him? 

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Zelensky Targeted in Wartime Protests in Ukraine for the First Time

Yeah, right...organized by Putin.