Ukraine has brought home 5,857 people from Russian captivity via exchanges since the outbreak of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on July 28. Another 555 people were freed separately from prisoner exchanges,

Trump withdrew from the fight against kleptocracy, and other countries have absorbed that fact.

Measures to strip Ukrainian's anti-corruption institutions of power were a mistake. Now, Zelensky must restore trust.

Following the first wartime protests against his administration, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky quickly put measures in place to ensure the agencies' independence

Thousands of people gathered in the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday night to protest moves by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government to weaken anticorruption institutions, in the country’s first major antigovernment demonstration in three and a half years of war.

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.

With the war now in its fourth year after Russia’s February 2022 invasion of its neighbor, the effort is draining resources on both sides, although Russia has more resources and people to sustain its fight.

Trump withdrew from the fight against kleptocracy, and other countries have absorbed that fact.