In this second of a two-part series with anticorruption leader and Ukraine expert Matthew Murray about the status of, and risks to, Ukraine’s anticorruption agenda, I explore where he thinks there are opportunities and resources to move that agenda forward. 

In late July of this year, the Ukrainian government’s commitment to rooting out corruption appeared in serious doubt. On July 21, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) searched the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), leading to the arrest of individuals who were alleged to be linked to Russia. Transparency International-Ukraine was among the civil society organizations that condemned the raid, asserting that the search was part of a government effort to “to undermine the