Ruslan Kravchenko has been appointed Prosecutor General of Ukraine, with the Verkhovna Rada supporting his candidacy following a proposal by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. A total of 273 Members of Parliament voted in favor of the appointment, reports Baltimore Chronicle with reference to Ukrainian MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
Prior to his appointment, Kravchenko served as the head of Ukraine’s State Tax Service, a position he assumed in December 2024.
President Zelenskyy submitted the official nomination of Kravchenko for parliamentary approval on June 16, 2025. According to Ukrainian legislation, the Prosecutor General must be a Ukrainian citizen aged 35 or older. Kravchenko, born on March 14, 1990, in Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk region, meets this requirement.
In 2021, Kravchenko was appointed head of the Bucha District Prosecutor’s Office in Kyiv region. Starting from March 31, 2022, he was directly involved in documenting and investigating war crimes committed by Russian forces in the city of Bucha.
From April 2023 to December 2024, he held the position of Head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration. In 2023, he applied to lead the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), but did not pass the integrity interview process.
The position of Prosecutor General had remained vacant since October 2024. On October 29, the Verkhovna Rada passed a resolution approving the dismissal of then-Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, with 255 MPs voting in favor.
Prior to that, on October 22, President Zelenskyy convened a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), which focused on investigations into alleged abuses in the disability determination process involving prosecutors and other officials. Following the meeting, Andriy Kostin submitted his resignation.
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