A 'dark day' for Ukraine's Supreme Court may yet increase the chances of President Volodymyr Zelensky securing further Western aid.
The latest corruption scandal may feed reservations about providing aid to Ukraine that have already emerged on the right of the U.S. political spectrum, Dunn said, but the commitments to tackling corruption will likely be positively received by the international community more broadly.
The news is a"strong signal that Ukraine is serious not only to prevail on the battlefield but to undertake a judicial reform that would bring it closer to the standards of advanced democracies," according to Mikhail Alexseev, a San Diego State University political science professor. "Long-term meaningful reforms will be impossible if Russia retains occupied territories, continues its mass military aggression and wears out Ukraine's defenses and its allies' will to support Ukraine militarily," Alexseev said.
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