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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.

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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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)

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

For those out of the loop, KyivIndependent is a heavily Western leaning pro-Ukraine news outlet.

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow the Ukraine media is pro ukraine? Who'd've thought?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

Tsar, you say?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

lemmy's "general interest" instances are filled with title-only-reacting redditors and it shows.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

Libs traditionally tailing imperial media into being against every war but the current one.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is an editorial though, it has nothing to do with their journalists.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Editorial by The Kyiv Independent. That is their jounalists.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

perhaps the owner

The independent is journalist owned, afaik.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

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?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

meh. I feel an editorial is like our comments on a news article. I sorta wish we could seperate news items and editorials.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Separating news and editorial would not stop that though. You would just read it in an editorial community rather than a news one.