The democratic West’s courageous bulwark against lawless autocracy of the East

Guardian:

“Before the war, the majority of Ukrainians did not trust the state,” said Venediktova. “There were grounds for this: the other general prosecutors and the way they behaved.”

The office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general has been dogged by accusations of corruption and inefficiency since the country declared independence.

There have been almost no successful major prosecutions over the last 30 years, with the shooting of dozens of protesters in February 2014 in central Kyiv, the murder of two prominent Ukrainian journalists, the poisoning of Ukraine’s third president, and countless instances of state corruption and bribery all failing to result in convictions.