Volodymyr Zelensky faced public protests on Tuesday night after parliament backed a controversial bill limiting the power of anti-corruption agencies.

Thousands of people gathered in the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday night to protest moves by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s government to weaken anticorruption institutions, in the country’s first major antigovernment demonstration in 3½ years of war.

Protests were held in Kiev on Tuesday evening after a new law passed by the Ukrainian parliament which threatened to curb the independence of anti-corruption investigators was signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The demonstrations erupted outside the president’s office after Ukraine’s Parliament approved a law that would effectively strip independence from the anticorruption bureau.

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But Sen. Mehreen Faruqi, deputy leader of the minor party Australian Greens, made a silent protest by holding up a sign in the chamber during Mostyn’s speech that said: “Gaza is starving, words won’t feed them, sanction Israel.”

In other words, its name means “undo the war.” But the protest goes further: Mr. Winter built it with metal from a Russian tank destroyed in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, which he obtained through the help of two fellow Finns, a volunteer soldier and an aid worker.

The demonstrations erupted outside the president’s office after Ukraine’s Parliament approved a law that would effectively strip independence from the anticorruption bureau.

Several dozen people protested in Berlin on Tuesday evening against the performance by Russia-born soprano Anna Netrebko at the Classic Open Air music festival. Up to 200 people participated in the protest called by the Ukraine Solidarity Association Vitsche at the Gendarmenmarkt square in front of the Berlin Concert Hall,