Ukraine’s parliament appoints Ruslan Kravchenko as Prosecutor General

Kravchenko, addressing parliament, highlighted his 11 years of prosecutorial experience, including handling complex cases.

"In 2014, I was in Crimea to the last. I took my criminal cases from the military prosecutor's office seized by the occupiers and brought them to Kyiv. Responsibility for me is not rhetoric, but a habit," he said.

Russia’s Investigative Committee listed him as wanted for his work on fugitive ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s case.

Kravchenko pledged to uphold the law and noted, “I have no relatives in the prosecutor’s office, and I assure you, none will appear.”

Background

Ruslan Kravchenko has been the head of the State Tax Service since 2024. Before that, he was the head of the Kyiv Oblast Military Administration (from 2023 to 2024).

According to election watchdog Chesno, from 2012 to 2014, Ruslan Kravchenko worked as a supervisory investigator at the Sevastopol Prosecutor's Office. Then he took part in the Anti-Terrorist Operation under contract, was a prosecutor of the 33rd Military Prosecutor's Office of the Southern Region of Ukraine (in Debaltseve and Bakhmut). He has the status of a combatant and was discharged from military service in 2020.

From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a prosecutor in the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine. In particular, in the case where fugitive Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was found guilty of high treason and aiding and abetting in the conduct of war.

After that, he held other positions in law enforcement. In 2023, he applied for the position of head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).

At the time, Radio Liberty reported that, according to Kravchenko's declarations, he received official housing in December 2018, privatized it in 2019, and apparently sold it the same year.

Kravchenko's 2021 declaration states that he and his wife, who worked as the head of the translation department at the Prosecutor General's Office, had $53,000 in cash.

hromadske asked Kravchenko about the origin of these funds, and this is what he said: "I started declaring in 2015, I had a good salary every year. Both my wife and I had good salaries. That is, we could save. In 2020, I was dismissed from the military service with more than 10 years of service and was paid severance pay, which at that time amounted to about $20,000."

In April 2023, Kravchenko was appointed by Zelenskyy's decree to the post of head of the Kyiv Oblast Military Administration.