President Zelensky said that the new law was necessary to clear the organisations of “Russian influence” and improve the work of anti-corruption. Tonight, hundreds more protestors called on him to scrap the bill and restore the independence anti-corruption agencies.

Protestors fear that the change will undermine anti-corruption investigations into senior government officials and damage hopes of Ukraine joining the EU.

The bill, signed by Zelensky on Tuesday places the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) under the control of Ukraine’s Prosector General, appointed by Zelensky.

Protesters took to the streets for a second night in Ukraine after President Zelensky signed a bill that removed the independence of two anti-corruption agencies.

Thrilled to have won the 2024 @nctj.bsky.social Student Feature of the Year Award for two stories from Ukraine, The Freedom Convoy, and Made in Ukraine.

Thank you to @newsassociates.bsky.social for their tuition and support.

"...since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, The Melian Dialogue (Book 5, Chapter 17)

Delighted to be shortlisted for my journalism in the ‘Features of the year’ category for the @nctj.bsky.social Awards for Excellence 2024.

Thank you @newsassociates.bsky.social for their support and outstanding tuition during my NCTJ Diploma, especially Phil Wilkinson and Graham Dudman.

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'Made in Ukraine' - How Ukrainian soldiers are working directly with Ukrainian businesses to solve battlefield problems, and doing it faster, cheaper and better.

My article in Business Ukraine.

The Freedom Convoy - Driving from Estonia to Ukraine with a group of ordinary people taking extraordinary action to deliver support to soliders in Ukraine.

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"We did not cook food. We did not spend time and energy on it. We only fought. We lay in positions for days. It was snowing, raining. The locals came up in the dark and covered us with blankets and gave us sandwiches."

A Ukrainian soldier describing defending north west Kyiv along the Irpin river.

“I didn’t believe in [the prospect of a] full-scale invasion, I thought it was a political game or something, maybe they [the Russians] would cross the border somewhere, but just cross the border and go back, to scare people and that would be it.”

“Did you think the Russians would come to Kyiv?"

“No. I didn’t believe it, because we are in the centre of Europe, it’s the 21st Century, a global world. Huta and Moshchun were two nondescript small villages that could become the end of Kyiv.”