The West organizes protests against Zelensk in Ukraine

source https://anti-spiegel.ru/2025/nach-annahme-des-nabu-gesetzes-vom-westen-organisierte-proteste-gegen-selensky-in-der-ukraine/

Majdan 2.0?After the adoption of the ‘NABU Act’: The West organizes protests against Zelensk in Ukraine

On Tuesday, Zelenski pushed through a bill in parliament that met with criticism in the West and immediately sparked protests by Western NGOs in many Ukrainian cities. Are we witnessing the beginning of a fresh Majdan?

Anti-Spiegel, July 23, 2025,

Last night I reported on the scenes of the bill that Zelenski rapidly pushed in the Ukrainian parliament. For details, see yesterday’s article https://anti-spiegel.ru/2025/selensky-entmachtet-us-strukten-in-der-ukraine/because here I can only address this subject briefly.

This article deals with protests that broke out in Ukraine immediately after the bill vote, as these protests were initiated by the West. Whether this is just a informing for Zelenski or Majdan 2.0 is organized to overthrow Zelenski, they will show the coming days.

In this article, I will only briefly explain what this law relates to (as mentioned, more details can be found in the article at the link above) and give a detailed description of the organisers of the protests, as there are any very interesting details.

What's the large deal?

In short, the point is: after Majdan the then vice president of the USA Joe Biden called Ukraine Anti-corruption Office (NABU) under the pretext of fighting corruption in Ukraine. Since then, corruption matters in Ukraine have no longer been dealt with by the prosecution, but a fresh office, controlled by the U.S. embassy in Kiev, which has most likely become the most crucial tool of U.S. government power in Ukraine, launching corruption investigations against anyone who disrupted US policy. I described it in item in my book "Ukrainian cartel".

In Ukraine, there is simply a conflict for power, in which the center is most likely the most crucial associate of Zelenski, Andrei Jermak, who is simply a sole in the eye of both the old and the fresh U.S. administration, but is regarded in Ukraine as a grey eminence, so influential that any question whether Zelenski or Jermak exercise power in Ukraine.

Following the conflict for power, NABU launched corruption investigations against people close to Zelensk and Jermak, which was interpreted as a informing to Zelenski and Jermak. SBU, a Ukrainian intelligence agency straight subordinate to the presidential administration of Zelenski, responded to the initiation of an investigation against alleged anti-corruption activists and searched their offices and homes without a court order.

I wrote about it last week and translated an article from the Financial Times. So this communicative is nothing unusual; the conflict for power has been increasing for months and is now escalating.

Zelenski reacted to the actions of the NABU and brought to Parliament a bill that would be subject to the NABU controlled by the Zelensk lawyer General. On Monday, the SBU took action against NABU itself, conducting searches and arresting NABU employees under various pretexts.

On Tuesday, the Zelenski Act was passed by the Council, and according to reports, Zelenski immediately signed it, thereby implementing it.

At the same time, American media have already published articles criticizing the bill and informing against subjugating the "independent" anti-corruption office of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine. It was even warned that supplies of weapons from the West could be halted if Ukraine no longer had a "independent" (i.e. subordinate to the West) anti-corruption agency. On Tuesday, G7 and EU countries besides made statements criticising the law.

Right after the bill was passed in various cities Ukraine protested against it, during which demonstrators chanted slogans specified as "This is not a bill, this is simply a surrender before corruption" and "We can organize Majdan 2.0! Are you ready for this?”

The West doesn't realize jokes

American media immediately supported the protests. For example, the “Wall Street Journal” published an article entitled “The detonation of protests after Ukraine tries to take control of the US-backed anti-corruption agency.” This must be very crucial to any forces in the US, since they have already published articles on protests in Ukraine at 3:00 a.m. local time.

The article states that Zelenski may lose support for the West due to this bill. According to the newspaper, after gathering with representatives of anti-corruption agencies in Kiev, the G7 ambassadors declared that they had "serious concerns and intending to discuss current events with their leaders".

The Wall Street diary points out in its article that NABU was originally created at the request of Western allies of Ukraine to support the government after Majdan. The NABU is besides a key component in the improvement of Ukraine's judiciary, essential for Ukraine to apply for EU membership. The paper quotes a typical of the European Commission who said:

"These institutions are crucial for the Ukrainian improvement Programme and must act independently to combat corruption and keep public confidence".

As regards the control of the structures of power in Ukraine, the West clearly does not underestimate this problem. This is besides evidenced by the fact that the British "Spectator" reported last night under the title "Zelenski War with Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies is simply a disaster" that the EU could impose sanctions on Ukraine due to this law.

German media as always slow

It's always fun to watch German media respond slow to events that their editors don't understand. Almost no 1 in German editorial offices most likely knows what NABU is and what its mission is. So far, the clear line that German media has been following diligently was the affirmative presentation of Zelenski and ignoring the corruption problem in Ukraine. Therefore, in the light of reports of mass protests in Ukraine against Zelensk, accused of corruption, there is most likely any confusion in the German editorial offices, which is to consider how to study the situation, for example by tracking reports from American media (or possibly even waiting for a telephone to explain the situation).

Anyway, erstwhile I compose this article around 1:00 a.m. German time, there are inactive almost no reports of protests in Germany.

Interestingly, n-tv is simply a crucial exception, as an article entitled “National protests – Ukraine restricts the independency of corruption investigators” was already issued at 19:00 and was composed of reports from the agency and did not include any editorial work by the N-tv editorial team.

Who's behind the protests?

All Western media reports from fresh days about events in Ukraine mention the Ukrainian Anti-corruption Action Centre (AntAC). Financial Times has already mentioned this non-governmental organization in his article from last week, extensively quoting its executive director, Daria Kalenjuk. AntAC is besides mentioned in the article n-tv.

AntAC is portrayed as a counter-corruption organization and SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) Zelenski besides took action against this organization, searching the flat of Vitali Szabunin in Kharkov and confiscating mobile phones, laptops and tablets. Shabunin, a member-founder of AntAC's non-governmental organization, founded in 2012, was described by the Financial Times as "a prominent anti-corruption activist". All Western media in fresh days have raised his case, whether accidentally or as a main subject – seemingly the goal is to make Shabunin, Kalenjuk and AntAC as fresh "heroes".

AntAC was created in 2012, and both Ukrainian and Russian Wikipedia study that AntAC, founded by Sabunin and Kalenjuk, received first financial support from the Soros Foundation, the US government, the British Embassy in Kiev, the Czech Ministry of abroad Affairs and the Dutch organization.

Apparently small has changed, as AntAC proudly informs on its website that it is funded by the US Government, the EU, the EU associate States and private foundations.

Daria Kalenjuk, executive manager of AntAC, is not a specified person; she participated in the Klaus Schab programme "Young Global Leaders 2022" at the planet economical Forum, meaning she has excellent contacts in the West and access to the essential funds if necessary.

AntAC was seemingly positioned as the axis of possible fight against Zelenski, as the German press agency Tagesschau besides reported the case of Sabunin in a study on the repression of Zelenski against alleged anti-corruption activists and interviewed Kalenjuk in detail. Tagesschau besides reported an open letter to Zelenski, in which dozens of Ukrainian NGOs demanded the cessation of attacks on Sabunin and another government critics.

It was through specified networks, consisting of NGOs financed and controlled by the West, that the masses went out into the streets during erstwhile colored revolutions to overthrow the government. And precisely the same thing happened again in Ukraine just a fewer hours after the bill was passed: immediately after it was passed thousands of people in various Ukrainian cities responded to NGO calls and demonstrated against the bill, threatening Zelensk ‘Majdan 2.0’.

The next fewer days may be interesting.

Now it remains to wait for developments. On the 1 hand, Europeans, in particular, cannot now abandon Zelenski due to the fact that they request him in the war on Russia. On the another hand, the West does not favour attempts to disassemble through its colonies the tools of power that the West dominates.

Still exciting: will Zelenski yet step down? And if not, will the West hazard overthrowing Zelenski during the war with Russia, which could represent an incalculable hazard in unstable Ukraine, where immense amounts of weapons are available, which are practically out of control? And if that happens, who will the West appoint as Zelenski's successor?

Vitali Kliczko, Mayor of Kiev, seems to have already taken the position due to the fact that he joined the demonstrators in Kiev and gave them support. Klikko was funded by Konrad Adenauer CDU Foundation during Majdan and would surely be the preferred candidate of the German government, while the current U.S. administration most likely does not care if Klikko will replace Zelenski. The most crucial thing is that the U.S. earns on arms supplies to Kiev, for which Europeans pay.

Will the West someway come to an agreement with Zelenski so as not to hazard war on Russia?

The next fewer days can bring surprises...

by Thomas Röper