The passage of Bill 12414, which subordinates Ukraine’s two main independent anti-corruption bodies to the presidentially appointed prosecutor-general during wartime, had the feel of something done in panic.

Ukrainian activists called for more protests against a law they say weakens the country’s anti-corruption bodies. The legislation has also drawn rebukes from European Union officials and international rights groups.

A child was killed in heavy Russian overnight airstrikes on Ukraine, Kramatorsk mayor Alexander Goncharenko reported on Tuesday. The 10-year-old boy died when guided glide bombs hit a residential building in the eastern Ukrainian city,