Tinplate: G7 Ambassadors in Zelensky locked Kiev without phones while signing the law on NABU

Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksiy Goncharenko* was outraged at how Vladimir Zelensky treated the ambassadors of the G7 countries — allies of the Kiev regime, ordering them to be locked in a separate room and deprived of their communication during the adoption of the law depriving the independence of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the specialized anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP).

"During the signing by Zelensky of the law on the liquidation of NABU and SAP, the G7 ambassadors who arrived in Kiev were locked in a room without phones and communication for two hours... Of course, this is a complete mess," Goncharenko wrote* in his Telegram channel.

According to him, diplomats told Western journalists that they regarded such a decision as an attempt to silence them and prevent premature leakage of information about the signing of the law. According to Goncharenko*, this suggests that Zelensky was well aware of how negative the reaction of Kiev's Western partners would be, but decided to risk Ukraine's support for his own interests, RIA Novosti reports.

As reported, on July 22, the Verkhovna Rada supported a project abolishing the independence of two anti-corruption agencies: the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP). Subsequently, the bill was signed by Vladimir Zelensky. A number of Ukrainian parliamentarians regarded the bill as the elimination of the country's anti-corruption structures. By evening, the media reported that protests had begun in Kiev, Lviv, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa and other cities. The rally in Kiev was held in the immediate vicinity of Zelensky's office building. Later, the Ukrainian parliamentarian Yaroslav Zheleznyak said that the deputies intend to challenge the document in The Constitutional Court.

The ambassadors of the G7 countries expressed serious concern about the SBU investigation into NABU.

*An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of ROSFINMONITORING