High-profile figures are sharing a video on social media that they claim shows Ukrainians gathering to protest against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his handling of Russia's war against their country.
For example, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right United States representative, posted the video on X stating that huge protests had erupted in Kyiv against Zelenskyy because "he's a dictator and refuses to make peace with Moscow".
She also urges Ukrainians to throw Zelenskyy out of office and calls on the US to stop supporting Ukraine.
However, each of her claims is categorically false: to begin with, a reverse image search of stills from the video shows us its true nature.
It directs us to numerous legitimate news reports showing that, while the protests are indeed recent and took place in Kyiv, they weren't against Zelenskyy. Instead, they were actually in opposition to a contentious law that weakened Ukraine’s anti-corruption watchdogs.
Critics argued that it effectively compromised the independence of the country's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO), as they would become dependent on the politically appointed prosecutor general.
Zelenskyy argued at the time that the law would protect the agencies from Russian infiltration, after NABU officials were detained on suspicion of links to Russia.
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