Ukraine Lawmakers Move to Weaken Anti-Corruption Agencies

Ukrainian lawmakers approved legislation that would strip the nation’s anti-corruption agencies of their independence and potentially cripple efforts to tackle high-level graft.

Lawmakers voted 263 in favor of the bill in the 450-seat legislature in Kyiv on Tuesday, part of a raft of amendments to criminal procedure that moved through Ukraine’s legislature, where President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s Servant of the People party has a majority. The president must sign the legislation before it becomes law.