Anti-Corruption Activist Under Pressure in Ukraine

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Vitaliy Shabunin during a hearing in his case at the Pecherskyi District Court in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 15, 2025. © 2025 Oleksandr Sinitsa/UNIAN On July 11, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) conducted searches targeting Vitaliy Shabunin, a prominent anti-corruption activist who has played a key role in exposing allegations of government corruption. Shabunin recently criticized the Ministry of Defense and the President’s Office over its weapons procurement and supply.Investigators raided Shabunin’s family home in the capital, Kyiv, as well as his…

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