The Verkhovna Rada has appointed Ruslan Kravchenko as Ukraine’s new Prosecutor General, with 273 lawmakers voting in favor.
People’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported on Telegram that five MPs voted against, 23 abstained, and 20 did not participate in the vote.
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On June 16, President Volodymyr Zelensky submitted Kravchenko’s nomination to parliament.
Born in 1990 in the Luhansk region, Kravchenko is now the youngest Prosecutor General in Ukraine’s history, Zheleznyak added.
Kravchenko is a graduate of the Ivan Bohun Kyiv Military Lyceum and the Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy, where he earned his degree in jurisprudence in 2012, receiving the rank of “lieutenant of justice.”
He served in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) while working as a prosecutor with the 33rd Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Southern Region (Debaltseve, Bakhmut, Donetsk region). Kravchenko holds official status as a combat veteran and was discharged to the reserve in 2020.
From 2015 to 2019, he worked in the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office and later as deputy military prosecutor of Ukraine’s Central Region. He also headed the department overseeing criminal cases related to the defense-industrial complex at the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office.
In 2021, Kravchenko was appointed head of the Bucha District Prosecutor’s Office. He remained there until 2023, when he competed for the leadership of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).
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In April 2023, he was appointed by presidential decree as head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, a post he held until Dec. 30, 2024, before becoming head of the State Tax Service.
The Prosecutor General’s seat had been vacant since October 2024, following the resignation of Andriy Kostin amid a scandal over draft evasion schemes involving fraudulent disability certifications for prosecutors.
Medical and social expert commissions had reportedly granted disability to dozens of prosecutors, particularly in the Khmelnytskyi region.
The highest-profile case involved Tetyana Krupa, the former head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Center for Medical and Social Expertise, from whom almost $6 million in cash, undeclared assets, and foreign accounts were seized during searches. Krupa is currently in custody.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) reported that 64 officials from the medical commissions were under investigation, with nine people already convicted. The SBU said 4,106 disability certificates “were canceled.”
Kostin had ordered an internal investigation into the scandal. Shortly after, the head of the Khmelnytskyi Regional Prosecutor’s Office, Oleksiy Oliynyk, resigned.
At the end of October 2024, Kostin announced his resignation.
“Many shameful facts of abuse have been established within the system of prosecutor’s offices of Ukraine,” Kostin wrote on social media.
“I believe it is right to announce my resignation from the post of Prosecutor General,” he added.
His resignation came after Zelensky met with senior officials to address the systemic abuse of disability certificates that allowed officials from “various state bodies” to avoid military service.
Following the meeting, Zelensky said that Kostin should take “political responsibility” for the situation within his agency.
Kostin currently serves as Ukraine’s ambassador to the Netherlands.
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