In late 2023, Ukraine finally re-launched the process of vetting judges as part of a long anticipated judicial reform – a key condition for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. Four months later, the results are mixed. On the one hand, the High Qualification Commission, a top judicial body, has approved firing almost half of the judges that the Public Integrity Council, the judiciary’s civil society watchdog, vetoed. Yet, the other half, deemed unethical by the Public Integrity Council, remains. Ukraine’s most odious judges – Pavlo Vovk and Vsevolod Kniaziev – still keep their jobs. Both…