(24 Jul 2025)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS PROTEST SIGNS AND SOUNDBITES CONTAINING EXPLETIVES++
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Kyiv, Ukraine – 24 July 2025
1. Wide of people protesting against new anti-corruption law near Ukrainian Presidential Office
2. Various of people protesting and chanting
3. Various of a Ukrainian soldier standing with a poster reading (Ukrainian): "Evacuate my comrades from 23d Separate Rifle Battalion A7107 (number of military unit)!" ++CONTAINS SIGN WITH EXPLETIVES++
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Ihor Tish, 31, Ukrainian soldier: ++CONTAINS EXPLETIVE++
"Currently, as a still active military serviceman, I am undergoing treatment. After I received messages from my comrades about deaths, about how my command does not evacuate people, about the provision of the unit, I believe that at the moment our state should take care of urgent problems first, and urgent problems are at the front. Therefore, I am here now to show my public position, first of all, against this law, because we cannot eat this s**t year after year, every day. People simply have to run out of patience at some point, and it has run out, that’s why I am here."
5. Close of poster reading (Ukrainian): "Evacuate my comrades from 23d Separate Rifle Battalion A7107 (number of military unit)!"
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Ihor Tish, 31, Ukrainian soldier:
"In order to normalize the situation, to settle all this, first of all, it is necessary to cancel the law that they have already adopted. This is law number 12414, which was adopted brazenly in a matter of hours. When all bills were adopted and submitted for consideration by the president, they were usually signed at least 10 days later, and not immediately in a few hours. I do not believe that Mr. Zelenskyy (Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy) could have signed it himself, most likely it was done for him and there was not even time to look at this bill, and the law that was adopted. Currently, a new bill is being considered, which may somehow regulate the one that they adopted, but I do not believe that there will be a regulation."
7. Various of Ukrainian soldier standing with a poster reading (Ukrainian): "I shed my blood for a free Ukraine, not for a corrupt cesspool."
8. Various of student Mykola Bezkrovnyy protesting and chanting UPSOUND Mykola Bezkrovnyy (Ukrainian): "Pass the law (referring to new bill submitted by Zelenskyy to restore independence of anti-corruption agencies)"
9. Close of banner
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mykola Bezkrovnyy, 20, student:
"It’s not because we are anti-war, anti-Zelenskyy, and not because we want to discharge all of our government. It’s only because we think that our anti-corruption, NABU (National Anti Corruption Bureau of Ukraine), SAPO (Specialized Anti Corruption Office) or other government agencies are important for our independence and for our victory. All of the stuff, I would not say any bad words, you know, that’s about like ‘we are trying to dissolve all of our government, it’s completely propaganda. I’m staying here because my country is important to me. And all of my country’s future is also important."
11. Mid of protester
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mykola Bezkrovnyy, 20, student:
13. Various of people protesting
STORYLINE:
Thousands of young people protested for a third day in the streets of Kyiv against a new law they say will undermine the power of Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies.
Among them was 31-year-old Ukrainian soldier Ihor Tish, who lost his arm fighting on the front last year.
For him, the new law is diverting energy away from war efforts.
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