Thousands of Ukrainians took to the streets on Tuesday to protest a contentious law signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky that severely weakened the country’s top anti-corruption agencies.
The Kyiv Post saw two or three thousand young people rallying around the Ivan Franko Theater near the presidential complex in central Kyiv. It was the first such demonstration since the Russian invasion began in February 2022. Ukraine has been under martial law since then and public protests are technically illegal.
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Kyiv Post reporter Sergii Kostezh said the protesters were “crying that they do not wish to return to the times of Yanukovych,” or the “times of pro-Russian governance in Ukraine.”
Viktor Yanukovych was the fabulously corrupt pro-Russian leader deposed by the Euromaidan uprising
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