
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky confronts his gravest domestic crisis since Russia's invasion as thousands of protesters flooded Kyiv's government quarter, defying air raid sirens and martial law restrictions to denounce his seizure of the country's anti-corruption agencies.
After three brutal years watching their sons and daughters die fighting the Russian war machine, ordinary Ukrainians took to the streets—not against Russian invaders, but against their president as they gathered outside President Zelensky's fortress-like compound on the intervening night of 22-23 July.