The war for Ukraine’s future is being fought not just on the battlefield, but also within its democratic institutions. Today, one of those battles was lost. The parliament passed a bill that destroys the independence of Ukraine’s key anti-corruption bodies. If signed into law, it would effectively dismantle their ability to investigate all senior officials in the country without interference.

The new legislation will allow Ukraine’s prosecutor general to take control over National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu) and Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (Sapo). Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Ruslan Kravchenko to this post just a month ago, and now he will be able to access case files of any criminal proceedings on high-level corruption, reassign them to other investigation bodies or even shut them down. Both Nabu and Sapo were established as part of........

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