President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s effort to seize control of Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies has triggered the country’s most serious political crisis since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Zelenskiy rapidly reversed course when he realized the scale of outrage among ordinary Ukrainians and the Western governments bankrolling his government.

Ukraine's parliament voted on Thursday to restore the independence of two key anti-corruption agencies, moving to defuse the country's biggest political crisis since Russia's invasion. Lawmakers voted 331 to 0 in favor of the bill,