Slogans, songs, Ukrainian anthem … It was about 8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 22, when a few thousand people gathered under the windows of the Ukrainian presidency, in kyiv, despite the martial law in force since 2022. Ukrainian flag on the shoulders or signs in hand, the demonstrators protested against adoption, afternoon, a large majority of the Parliament (263 and 13 abstentions) of a law largely weakening the architecture of the fight against the throbbing scouring of corruption, which is difficult to set up after the Maidan revolution, in 2014 (a movement born from the refusal of the then president, Viktor Ianoukovitch, to sign an association agreement with the European Union, favoring a rapprochement with Russia). This vote threw part of the country in the street into the street in the middle of the war. A first since the country’s invasion by Russia in February 2022, with the exception of gatherings in support of prisoners.
“Shame”, “Government resign, the gang outside!” »»chant the demonstrators gathered in kyiv, around the garden facing the national theater, a 5 -minute walk from the famous Maidan square where the “Dignity Revolution” was held more than ten years ago. In the early evening on Tuesday evening, around forty former soldiers, engaged in 2014 (during the war in Donbass) or in 2022, gathered At the foot of the presidential palace, often in shorts and carrying a prosthesis. But the vast majority of the crowd remains very young: the arrests for mobilization make those over 25 years old very cautious.
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