The European Union is freezing $1.7 billion in aid to Ukraine because President Volodymyr Zelensky approved a bill curbing the war-torn nation’s top anti-corruption agencies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is under fire at home and abroad after signing a controversial law that threatens the autonomy of anti-corruption bodies. The EU has responded by suspending $1.7 billion in aid.

President Zelensky's anti-corruption policies have provoked Ukraine's first anti-govt protests since the Russian invasion in 2022. Now, it seems.

The protests that filled central Kyiv following the passage of a bill that weakens Ukraine’s key anti-corruption institutions are not a sign of weakness for the embattled country. It is instead a sign of the Ukrainian peoples’ desire to continue the trajectory toward a future anchored in the rule of law,