Zelensky backtracks on law over anti-corruption bodies
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The National Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine has long been a battleground in Ukrainian politics, where graft is rife.
Ukrainian analysts have told Newsweek the move undoes a decade of democratic progress, although its president Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he backed a new draft law aimed at strengthening the independence the anti-corruption institutions. Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian president's office and the Kremlin for comment.