Due to Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has been under martial law for nearly four years. Democratic processes, like elections, remain suspended, effectively freezing domestic politics. With the war ongoing, Ukrainian society and political elites have rallied around President Volodymyr Zelensky. However, since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House intent on brokering a peace deal, signs of political competition have begun to surface. Over the summer, Ukraine witnessed its first major protests since Russia’s full-scale invasion, and long-running conflicts between local authorities and the Zelensky administration have spilled into public view. In a new report for Carnegie’s Ukraine Initiative, analysts Balázs Jarábik and Anatolii Oktysiuk examine Ukraine’s thawing political landscape and what it presages for the powers that be in Kyiv. To learn more about their findings, The Beet editor Eilish Hart spoke to analyst and former diplomat Balázs Jarábik, the founder of the political risk consultancy Minority Report and a partner at R.Politik.Read More
