Volodymyr Zelensky has promised to reverse a crackdown on Ukraine’s anticorruption agencies following street protests.

Protests have erupted in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities against a new law that threatens the independence of Ukraine's anti-corruption institutions.

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.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the target of the largest protests since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war after his government’s effective dissolution of a major anti-corruption body.

Volodymyr Zelensky has appeared to backtrack on his controversial corruption reform in an attempt to end protests in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill limiting two Ukrainian anticorruption agencies. After street protests and other criticism, he said he would propose a new law restoring their independence.

Protesters rallied across Ukraine on Tuesday evening after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law tightening control over key anti-corruption agencies, a move critics say threatens their independence and risks undermining EU ties and billions in Western aid.

For six years in office, Volodymyr Zelensky never experienced the raging crowd beneath his window. But Ukraine’s wartime president grew too powerful, too confident, bathing in the unwavering