Last week, we warned of a coming anti-democratic backslide. Now, we see it happening.
Under the new law, the prosecutor general, a notoriously non-independent figure, will now oversee anti-corruption investigations — in a complete overturn of the system that was set up to be independent from other law enforcement bodies.
In reality, it means that Zelensky’s office will be able to stop investigations with a phone call.
It also closely follows an escalated prosecution of Ukraine’s best-known anti-corruption activist, an outspoken critic of Zelensky.
so he’s being discarded after doing west’s dirty job (and not even finishing it)? boy, saddam hussein and noriega are laughing right now in hell, saying “at least they gave us a little bit more time”.
Corrupt, Independent Ukraine is still preferable to Russian Puppet “Ukraine”
Westerners really don’t care what Ukrainians think, do they?
“Independent”, yeah right
Even “Ostensibly Independent Ukraine” is probably better than “Subjugated Russian Vassal State Ukraine”
“Ostensibly Independent Ukraine”
wheeze
they subjugated vessal.
our ostensibly independent ukraine.
But is it worth dying for?
It’s a sacrifice that Europeans that aren’t Ukrainians in Ukraine are willing to make.
I am not sure if you realize how Ukrainians “join the military”.
I am aware, it ranges between stealing of passports and kidnapping, libs refer to them as “unconventional tactics”, anyone with a working conscience refers to them as no less than bloodthirsty Western meatgrinder operations.
I’m just surprised (well not really surprised, disappointed) that it took this long to resume reporting on one of the most corrupt countries in the world. It was well known that corruption had reached obscene levels in Ukraine, until they were invaded; Then seemingly everyone forgot.
It just doesn’t really matter right now, do you have a credible claim of corruption that is more urgent then the need for Ukraine to not be annexed? No then what’s your point and why can’t it be solved when they don’t have literal murderous invaders wandering about.
Then seemingly everyone forgot.
No, western media (and aligned to them) just hushed all mentions of corruption in Ukraine, or else someone might ask why they are sending so much money and weapons to such corrupted country. Now when the money stream dies off and USA is preparing to pivot from Ukraine to Asia, western media are again allowed to express criticism toward Ukraine.
Because they paid for them, why do so many people think these weapons deals are charity… They’re paying for them and the payments are either for trade agreements or seized Russian assets dispersed to the country Russia is currently invading.
Before you straight up downvote this after reading just the headline you should know that Kyiv Independent is highly credible and staffed with reputable journalists.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/kyiv-independent-bias/ (not that I personally think MBFC is a reputable references, but the people who would downvote this, for the most part, do)
For those out of the loop, KyivIndependent is a heavily Western leaning pro-Ukraine news outlet.
Wow the Ukraine media is pro ukraine? Who’d’ve thought?
Given that Zelensky nationalized Ukrainian media and made himself censorship czar, I’da thought.
Tsar, you say?
lemmy’s “general interest” instances are filled with title-only-reacting redditors and it shows.
Hey, they also react on who post this and the source, when the same info just with way less inflammatory headline was posted by someone who is not western shill from something that isn’t just CIA media front, it was like -30 votes lol.
Also, it’s starting, Zelensky’s getting demythologised by even western aligned media prior to his inevitable downfall. Just like us commies said long ago, but libs were frothing at mouth then.
They’re still frothing at the mouth, they’re just changing targets. Libs are doing mental warmups for the incredible gymnastics they’re gonna have to pull off to pretend that this was unforeseen and tAnKiEs got it all wrong anyway.
Libs traditionally tailing imperial media into being against every war but the current one.
We have redditors among us?
True, sometimes whole threads in a heated discussion, that revolves around assumptions they have about the title.
Hold your horses, at least skim over the article, fucking redditors /s
This is an editorial though, it has nothing to do with their journalists.
Editorial by The Kyiv Independent. That is their jounalists.
So, unnamed journalists, or perhaps the owner, or…? No leader is perfect, but wartime and holding your own against Putin is no easy feat. You could do 1000x worse than him and now you’re nitpicking during war time? I guess I’m jealous that you feel like you can when our trainwreck is still building concentration camps to enrich his buddies.
The last few lines are getting closer,
Ukraine’s democracy can still be salvaged. In peacetime, that responsibility would fall on the Ukrainian people.
But today, Ukrainians are fighting — and dying — for Europe and the whole free world.
Will the West hold the line for them?
perhaps the owner
The independent is journalist owned, afaik.
This is wikipedia, so it’s probably a little biased. Biased in what way is something I don’t know enough to say. This does tell us something though, they want to hold everyone’s feet to the fire. I understand why journalists want to do this is normal times, but when there is a war going on, you need people to be behind you. Also, most people are ignorant and need to be spoon fed, especially during war time. They have other shit on their mind and they need a hero in their lives.
The Kyiv Independent
In October 2021, disputes arose between employees of the Kyiv Post and the owner of the newspaper. Journalists at the newspaper believed that even under the presidency of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, their previous critical reporting was adversely affecting the business of the owner, who had bought the barely-profitable newspaper from Mohammad Zahoor in March 2018, and invested significant funds in it. The owner of the Kyiv Post at the time was the Syrian-born investor Adnan Kivan (Kadorr Group, which owns Channel Odesa 7). Brian Bonner, the former CEO of the Kyiv Post, said in April 2022 that the newspaper’s “fragmentary reporting” had brought it into conflict with every Ukrainian government it dealt with so far, including Zelensky’s. According to Bonner, Zelenskyy had tried to portray himself as a reformer to Western governments, and alleged that critical reporting had been seen as undermining that message. The government, Bonner said, had begun to lean on Kivan, who had seen ownership of a “crusading media outlet” as more trouble than it was worth.[2][3]
The president’s office denies it, the prosecutor’s office denies it, Kivan denies it - but I know we were under pressure … The Kyiv Post survived [former presidents] Kuchma, Yushchenko, Yanukovych, and Poroshenko, but died under Zelenskyy. That was a big surprise to me.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kyiv_Independent
Edit: I’m going to add this, they are owned by journalists and a media company apparently
The Kyiv Independent is an English-language Ukrainian online newspaper founded in November 2021, three months before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, by former staff of the Kyiv Post and media consultancy Jnomics Media. The online newspaper is also active on Twitter, Bluesky and Reddit.[1]
This is wikipedia, so it’s probably a little biased. Biased in what way is something I don’t know enough to say.
On the whole Wikipedia is biased toward capitalism & Western imperialism/neocolonialism.
The Grayzone, 2020: Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO
Katherine Maher has since left her Wikimedia CEO position for the NPR CEO position. She’s also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, and the US State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, among other Atlantacist organizations. She used to work for the World Bank.
Nah, I meant the editors can be biased occasionally. Articles can be edited like a see saw from biased to unbiased to biased the other way, etc.
The Ukrainian revolution had from the very start an anti corruption message. Politicians have both taken advantage and undermined it. This week is not unexpected. Zelenskyy backtracking today is not unexpected. Him using smoke and mirrors, in his new idea, to avoid undermining political allies will not be unexpected next month.
It is utterly predictable that this newspaper will issue similar editorial later.
One day there will be not so much corruption in the life blood of Ukrainian politics. But not soon. Maybe in a generation?
yeah I sorta wish the news communities did not allow editorials. I mean im pretty sure they would not allow people to just post about their opinion of some news.
I don’t mind editorials with a name or names behind them because you then look them up and see what kind of intentions they have. This is no bueno.
meh. I feel an editorial is like our comments on a news article. I sorta wish we could seperate news items and editorials.
I can see that, but I disagree. If Bernie Sanders wrote an editorial about cleaning up politics, I would want to read that. I probably wouldn’t want to read about /u/ilovetits’s take on it.
Separating news and editorial would not stop that though. You would just read it in an editorial community rather than a news one.
Sadly I think this was bound to happen. Zelenskyy has been not only fighting the physical war with Russia but also a prolonged propaganda war and the measures he’s used to fight against the mass of disinformation flowing out of Putin’s bullshit machine were bound to be corrupt by their very nature. You can see the paranoia that has set in as he was not only attacked by the east but now with Trump in office, he started getting it from the west as well. I fear that it’s only going to be downhill from here.
they don’t even do that pikachu face. they simply turn around their faces and pretend nothing’s happening.
Ukraine’s what now?
