Ukraine's parliament on June 17 permitted President Volodymyr Zelensky's nomination of 35-year-old Ruslan Kravchenko because the nation's new prosecutor basic, making him the youngest individual to ever maintain the publish.
Kravchenko, a former army prosecutor and most not too long ago head of Ukraine's tax service, replaces Andrii Kostin, who stepped down in October 2024 following a scandal involving fraudulent incapacity claims by dozens of prosecutors in Khmelnytskyi Oblast.
Lawmakers supported Kravchenko's appointment with 273 votes in favor, in line with Yaroslav Zheleznyak, an MP from the Holos social gathering.
A local of Sievierodonetsk in jap Ukraine, Kravchenko served as a army prosecutor in Crimea earlier than leaving the peninsula after Russia's annexation in 2014. He was one of many prosecutors within the case of fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych.
Kravchenko will now lead the Prosecutor Normal's Workplace amid conflict, reforms, and heightened scrutiny of legislation enforcement our bodies' work. His predecessor, Kostin, resigned after the media revealed that at the least 50 prosecutors had allegedly obtained incapacity standing fraudulently — a scandal that sparked widespread criticism.
The Prosecutor Normal's Workplace has performed a central function in documenting Russian conflict crimes and imposing anti-corruption efforts, particularly since Russia's full-scale invasion started in February 2022.
The Kyiv IndependentOlena Goncharova