Julia Kalashnyk

The Kyiv Wire is out. The newsletter about life in #Ukraine between voices, facts and feelings. Issue #1 is a love letter to #Kharkiv dancers, kids, a hairdresser, and a mouse in our apartment. Subscribe, if that sounds like your thing. Link in comment below

It’s no exaggeration that Ukrainian public opinion is in an absolute firestorm after the parliament today approved a law essentially dismantling independent anti-corruption agencies, just days after SBU raided key investigators. The law isn’t enacted until Zelensky signs it — and…

Попрощалися Честь і Слава Герою України Віталію Кравацькому "Туристу"🫡

Ukraine increasingly uses faster jet-engine drones in addition to turboprop drones for attacks on Russian defense industries. This morning’s target was the Signal plant in Stavropol, which makes jammers and other radio electronic warfare equipment.

Бачу, що військові пишуть, спостерігаючи протести, що через НАБУ і САП країна не впаде, або не перейде під Росію, а через те, що впале фронт - впаде і перейде під Росію. Це і вірно, і може бути також не вірно. Бо коли люди, близькі до президента крадуть на виробництві дронів

Once #Ukraine shows a democratic backbone, some people aren’t okay with it - because it’s supposedly ‘regime change’ or ‘no to the war,’ or ‘paid students.’ When Ukrainians don’t protest, they’re immediately labeled to be under a dictatorship. I can’t wrap my head around it

Second day of protests. Today, there were a lot of people in Kyiv. Thousands are protesting against the law that restricts anti-corruption bodies. Ukrainians demand the government to restore the independence of anti-corruption institutions #Ukraine

Office of President Zelensky now. The people of Ukraine demand ⁦@ZelenskyyUa⁩ to return back NOW independence of #NABU #SAPO

After signing a law that weakens the independence of anti-corruption bodies, and facing protests from thousands of Ukrainians - as the move would literally cancel Ukrainian anti-corruption effort - Zelensky has now promised a new law to protect their independence #Ukraine

A dark day. Ukrainians are fighting not to become Russia. Not to follow the Russian corrupt, authoritarian path. Dismantling the independent anti-corruption system is an insult to Ukrainian society, to the price Ukrainians paying. I hope @ZelenskyyUa will veto this bill

@ccl_ua calls on the @ZelenskyyUa to veto draft law No. 12414, which was adopted by Parliament today, July 22. The draft law poses a direct threat to the rule of law and human rights 👇 ccl.org.ua/en/claims/the-…

Ukraine’s parliament, controlled by the president, had just passed amendments that effectively kill the independence of the country’s anti-corruption institutions — NABU & the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO). 1/2