Parliament Appoints Ruslan Kravchenko as Prosecutor General

The Verkhovna Rada supported the submission of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and appointed Ruslan Kravchenko as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, UNN reports.

Kravchenko has 11 years of experience in the prosecutor's office. Prior to his appointment as Prosecutor General, he worked as the head of the State Tax Service, and before that, as the head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration.

273 deputies voted "for". 

Voting by factions:

• "Servant of the People" - "for" - 190, "against" - 0, "abstained" - 1;

• "European Solidarity" - "for" 0, "against" - 5, "abstained" - 14;

• "Batkivshchyna" - "for" - 17, "against" - 0 "abstained" - 0;

• "Platform for Life and Peace" - "for" - 14, "against" - 0, "abstained" - 0;

• "Voice" - "for" 0, "against" - 0, "abstained" - 8;

• "Restoration of Ukraine" - "for" 12, "against" - 0, "abstained" - 0;

• "Party "For the Future" - "for" 12, "against" - 0, "abstained" - 0;

• "Trust" - "for" - 18, "against" - 0, "abstained" - 0.

Addition

On June 16, the Verkhovna Rada received a submission from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the appointment of Ruslan Kravchenko as Prosecutor General.

The post of Prosecutor General remained vacant since the dismissal of Andriy Kostin on October 31, 2024.

Biographical note

Ruslan Kravchenko was born in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region. He graduated from the military-law faculty of the National University "Law Academy of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise".

He worked as an investigator, later - a senior investigator, of the Sevastopol Prosecutor's Office. He performed official duties and recorded the actions of the Russians during the occupation of Crimea. In 2014, he was appointed as a senior prosecutor of the Rivne, and later Lviv Prosecutor's Office for overseeing compliance with laws in the military sphere of the Western region of Ukraine. In 2014-2015, he took direct part in the anti-terrorist operation while performing official duties as a prosecutor of the 33rd military prosecutor's office of the Southern region of Ukraine. He has the status of a combatant.

From 2015 to 2019, he worked in the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine in various positions. He was the senior group of prosecutors and carried out procedural management, supported the state prosecution in the criminal proceedings against former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych on the fact of committing treason and complicity in the conduct of aggressive war. He achieved Yanukovych's conviction and sentenced him to 13 years of imprisonment.

From 2020 to 2021, Ruslan Kravchenko worked as the head of the department of procedural management in criminal proceedings on crimes in the field of defense industry of the Specialized Prosecutor's Office in the military and defense spheres of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. In 2021, Ruslan Kravchenko headed the Bucha District Prosecutor's Office of the Kyiv region. From March 31, 2022, he conducted the recording and investigation of war crimes of the Russians in Bucha.

In April 2023, he was appointed head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration. He held this position until the end of December 2024. On December 31, 2024, he was appointed head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine.