In The Midst of a Quiet Revolution: The independent judiciary’s unprecedented crackdown on corruption in Ukraine risks triggering a political crisis
The failure of the attempt in the summer of 2025 to curtail the independence of the anti-corruption judiciary, namely the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), paved the way for investigations into the highest echelons of the Ukrainian government and, in particular, President Zelensky’s immediate inner circle.