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 3½ years of war. Irony alert: The crowd grew on Tuesday evening as the sun set on a hill just above Maidan Square, where more than a decade ago crowds gathered to protest the corruption of the Kremlin-aligned president at the time, Viktor F. Yanukovych, leading to his ouster. The prosecutors soon would learn the resistance they faced was blowing directly from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, where the Obama administration took the rare step of trying to press the Ukrainian government to back off its investigation of both the U.S. aid and the group.
Author: NY Times
Published at: 2025-07-22 21:42:51
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