demonstration in kyiv against the vote of a law depriving the anti -corruption bodies of their independence

Ukrainian deputies deprive the anti -corruption bodies of their independence

Ukrainian deputies adopted a law on Tuesday which deprives the two institutions responsible for the fight against anti -corruption of their independence, the day after the very criticized arrest of an official working in one of these structures.

Despite the criticisms, the Parliament voted on Tuesday at 263 votes for, 13 against and 13 abstentions, to subordinate the activities of the National Bureau for the Fight against Corruption (NABU) and the Public Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) to the Attorney General, himself subordinate to the President, Volodyr Zelensky.

Semen Kryvonos, director of the Nabu, urged the head of state to not promulgate the text which, according to him, “Destroyed” l’infrastructure anticorruption and will allow some to become “Intouchables”. The text “Effectively ruins the independence of these two institutions vis-à-vis any political influence and pressure on our surveys”abounded the director of SAP, Oleksandr Klymenko.

“Today is a day of shame for the Ukrainian parliament. The authorities have introduced amendments to the law aimed at destroying the body to combat corruption ”too, indignant on Telegram the independent deputy Oleksiï Gontcharenko, saying to see a “Not to an authoritarian regime”.

According to the Roman deputy Lozinsky, this text grants the Attorney General the power to manage the SAP, to give “Compulsory written instructions” In Nabu, access the details of any business and delegate them to the prosecutor of his choice or other agencies.

A few hours before the vote, the European Union said, through the voice of its spokesperson, Guillaume Mercier, “Concerned”recalling that these two instances were “Essential to the reform program” that Ukraine is committed to leading to be able to join the EU.

On Monday, Ukrainian Security Services (SBU) announced the arrest of an official of the Nabu suspected of espionage for the benefit of Moscow and searched the premises of the organization, which rejects these accusations.

Jean-Noël Barrot traveling to Kharkiv

The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, in Kharkiv, Tuesday July 22, 2025. Ivan Samoilov / AFP

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, has just left Kharkiv, where he went this morning by night train with his Ukrainian counterpart, Andrii Sybiha.

For the second time after his trip to Soumy, in October 2024, a city where the Ukrainians had launched their offensive in the Russian Oblast of Koursk, he wished to go to a military position and talk to the advances of the eastern front with General Mykhaïlo Drapaty, commander of Ukrainian land forces.

He then shared a Borchtch in a military shelter with the chiefs of a brigade posted about twenty kilometers east of Kharkiv. “The Russian front has only advanced 0.25 % since the start of the year », Specifies the boss of the Quai d’Orsay.

In the morning, in Kharkiv, just 30 kilometers from the Russian border, he was mounted on the roof of the BNP Paribas seat “Targeted by Vladimir Putin’s missiles, because the war of aggression is not only played on the forehead”and could see the very visible damage in the city center, before visiting the Kharkiv literature museum, “Because war is not only carried out with canons and tanks, but with the weapons of the mind”.

Ariane path

A Ukrainian drone killed three in the occupied part of the Kherson oblast, according to the prorussian authorities

Three passengers of a bus targeted by a Ukrainian drone in the occupied part of the Kherson Oblast were killed and three others are in serious condition, the Governor Prorusse, Vladimir Saldo, on Telegram on Tuesday.

In the Russian Oblast of Belgorod, a bordering Ukraine, a man died of his injuries after a drone attack in the morning in Leonovka, according to Viatcheslav Gladkov, governor of the region. Alexandre Bogomaz, his counterpart of the British Oblastk, made two wounded in Bravnitchi, in another drone raid.

Moscow announces the taking of Novotoretske, northeast of Pokrovsk, in the Oblast of Donetsk

The Russian Ministry of Defense announces on Tuesday taking Novotoretske (🚩), a village of the Donetsk Oblast located about fifteen kilometers northeast of Pokrovsk.

According to Ukrainian analysts of open source of Deepstate, the Russian forces are present in the southern half of the town and progress towards Maïak by bypassing the northern part, which is in “gray zone”, which means that fights can take place.

Screen capture of the Deepstate site’s front card.

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