“Where is Zelensky?” Ukrainians notice he gave no address on the day the law against NABU was passed

Politicians and bloggers point out that today, July 23, there was no evening address from Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief.

This was noted on social media by Oleksiy Honcharenko, a member of the Verkhovna Rada and an opponent of the president.

Meanwhile, the official website of the Rada is undergoing “technical maintenance,” making it impossible to check the current status of the law adopted today limiting the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO).

After several MPs claimed that the law had already been signed by Zelensky, the document limiting the powers of NABU and SAPO appeared on the website of the official parliamentary newspaper Holos Ukrainy.

This means that, as of July 23, the restrictions on the anti-corruption bodies come into force.

During a rally in support of NABU and SAPO, protesters chanted: “Zelya [a nickname for Zelensky] is a devil!”

This chant came from part of the crowd that had gathered earlier in Ukraine’s capital, including the Klitschko brothers and MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak.