(23 Jul 2025)
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Kyiv, Ukraine – 22 July 2025
1. Various of people protesting against bill weakening anti-corruption agencies next to Ukrainian Presidential Office UPSOUND (Ukrainian): "Veto the bill!"
2. Closeup of a poster reading (Ukrainian): "No to corruption, no to the bill number 12414"
3. Various of 25-year-old Oleksandra Lastivka protesting
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleksandra Lastivka, 25, Kyiv resident:
"In general, this is what probably still holds our system together, because if we completely abandon the NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine), then everyone will be able to do what they want even more and everyone will steal like the last time, it’s not fun at all. Because when the front is moving at a very high speed, we must do everything to ensure that our country is united, free, and independent, and support the army by all methods, and this is one of them – to unite and fight against corruption. And this is directly a big lever thanks to which Europe will support us. If it is not there, they will be worried as always."
5. Wide of people protesting
6. Close-up of a poster reading (English): "Fight corruption, not NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau)"
7. Various of a crowd near the Presidential Office of Ukraine
8. Various of people protesting
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Ihor Lachenkov, 26, Ukrainian activist:
"It is important to fight corruption so that more money goes to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The more effectively the government uses our resources and there is less corruption, the more we will be able to direct resources to our defense, to our fight."
10. Various of people protesting
11. Various of 28-year-old Ukrainian veteran Oleh Symoroz protesting in wheelchair with a poster READING (Ukrainian): "Veto the bill number 12414"
12. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleh Symoroz, 28, Ukrainian veteran:
"We still have big problems with top corruption, especially the one that eats up a huge amount of our Ukrainian GDP in a warring country. Instead, we see how the President of Ukraine, instead of being an example, being the locomotive of this history of struggle and demonstrating zero tolerance for corruption, is now using his own resources to take control of the criminal proceedings of his entourage."
13. Wide of 28-year-old Ukrainian veteran Oleh Symoroz protesting in wheelchair with a poster READING (Ukrainian): "Veto the bill number 12414"
14. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Oleh Symoroz, 28, Ukrainian veteran:
"I feel that we have very different values with the Ukrainian authorities. We, as Ukrainian veterans, Ukrainian military, and Ukrainian society, have very different values with the authorities. For us, Ukraine is a truly independent state that will fight both against Russian imperialism and against the internal enemy. President Zelenskyy recently said that we have no enemies inside the country. It is a big mistake to think so, it is not even just a mistake, it is obvious that for Zelenskyy there are no enemies inside the country who steal. Because he is part of this system, unfortunately. He is part of these enemies. Unfortunately, I see the vote of confidence from society that has been given since 2022, the Ukrainian authorities took advantage of them, sat on their heads and believe that they will do whatever they want. We already had such a precedent, there was such an authority that thought so, it ended very badly for them."
15. Various of projection on the building READING (Ukrainian): "Veto the bill!"
16. Wide of Ukrainian Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko
17. Close-up of flags
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