Perché Zelensky ha attaccato agenzie anticorruzione indipendenti mentre il suo paese sta combattendo una guerra per l’esistenza?

Simple – there’s an **oligarch** and broader, **corruption** problem that Ukraine has to sort out. All the more damning that the crooks in fear for their sorry asses chose to rock and shake the state in middle of the damn war.

Pick one of the following:

1. Because it was targeting one of his close allies.

2. Because it is infested with pro-Russian plants.

3. Because it was targeting one of his close allies because it is infested with pro-Russian plants.

Whichever option you might find more likely, it was definitely a blunder. It remains to be seen if he’ll be able (and/or willing) to correct the mistake, and to what extent will his enemies be able to weaponize it against him.

Probably several factors.
On one hand an independent anti-corruption agency is a nuisance to corrupted officials.
On the other hand, in times of war it’s a glaring breach in national security to have an agency with competences like planting listening devices while not reporting to any of the government branches.

And it culminated right now, because the state’s security services unearthed the Russian infiltration in these agencies, which basically served on the platter the case of ceasing their independence.

The law came from the Rada, he just did not veto/return it.
After 2 days of protests he came up with the law that will ensure the independence of the institutions fighting the corruption.
You either do not understand that or intentionaly misleading the people by asking subjective/suggestive question.
People have spoken and he listened.

Its like people dont know what embezzlement is in this thread.

To be clear: Zelensky did not “attack” these agencies.

The Ukrainian Parliament passed regulations which Zelensky then signed off on.

I would think that it is precisely because of it. Maybe it was a power grab to some degree, maybe it was to instill a better image in public but maybe the “independent” agencies were biased in the sense that they prosecuted certain actors and let others go – the latter possible being tied closer to Russian businesses and government figures…
The secretive nature of the institutions make it that they usually don’t get much publicity accountability. So I can understand the need for control and insight. It was said that there were some files that haven’t seen updates for over 2 years with no good reason. And this does seem sus and biased.
But the question remains if it was the right thing to do, if there was no better alternative like more publicity, accountability, peer review processes, priority queues… if you accumulate power in one place it’s going to become the target of corruption quickly. Be it by the hands of your own colleagues or the next government. Positions like this need to be bound by a tightly knit net of principles and protocols. Then it won’t even need to be a party member or friend to do it and no such suspicious would come up in the first place. Let the public do it’s thing. Government funding will likely still be a way to coerce the institutions into changing their attention and priority… But that would also happen publicly and be subject to public scrutiny.

Because Zelensky personally is very corrupt. And his coming to power was a classical comeback of corrupt elites partially expelled and removed earlier after the Maidan. This is Ukrainian classical “pendulum”: reforms – counter-reforms. If not the war we would have already had elections and new President and new Parliament, this time pro-reforms again. We tolerate Zelensky, but he abuses our tolerance.