Zelenskyy still has no candidate to replace Kravchenko as prosecutor general
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Zelenskyy has no list of candidates for prosecutor general (Photo: Zelenskiy Official / Telegram)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy still has no
candidate to
replace Ruslan Kravchenko, whom the Verkhovna Rada could dismiss as
prosecutor general as early as next week, RBC-Ukraine
reported, citing its sources.
The sources said the president left for visits to Norway and
Canada after he had “dealt with” the NABU and SAP Carthage case. The issue has
been “put on hold” until his return.
RBC-Ukraine reported that lawmakers said Kravchenko’s
resignation had also “caused confusion among members of parliament.” The
outlet’s sources said lawmakers fear that the next head of the Prosecutor
General’s Office could sign off “without even looking” on all notices of
suspicion against them submitted by the Specialized Anti-Corruption
Prosecutor’s Office.
“The point is that the same SAP essentially brought down his
predecessor, so Kravchenko’s successor is unlikely to want to clash with it,”
the report said.
The outlet’s sources said an idea is “circulating among
lawmakers that the new prosecutor general should be ‘one of their own,’ meaning
a member of parliament.” It remains unclear whether any lawmakers would be
willing to take the job.
“No one forced us at the time to abolish immunity, which
exists in every country in the world. But it was our promise, and we did it. At
the same time, by consensus among all factions, we introduced a safeguard —
notices of suspicion against lawmakers are signed by the prosecutor general.
And now the ‘Sorosites’ are pushing the idea that the head of SAP should sign
them — and that upsets this balance,” a source in the Servant of the People
party told the outlet.
Ruslan Kravchenko’s resignation over Carthage case
On Sept. 4, NABU announced that it had carried out the
Carthage special operation to expose a criminal organization headed by an
employee of the Prosecutor General’s Office. It later emerged that NABU
and SAP had detained Serhii Kropyva. NABU and SAP said the Prosecutor
General’s Office official may have been involved in protecting a network of
fraudulent call centers and laundering assets. Kropyva has since been taken
into custody, with bail set at 120 million hryvnias.
Ukrainska Pravda, citing sources, reported that NABU and SAP
had conducted searches at premises linked to Prosecutor General Ruslan
Kravchenko, his deputy Maria Vdovychenko and Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper.
NABU said five people had been implicated in proceedings
under Article 255 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code, covering the creation or
leadership of a criminal organization and participation in one, and Article
209, covering the laundering of assets. Those convicted face up to 15 years in
prison.
On Sept. 5, the Prosecutor General’s Office said that
“around midnight, NABU detectives nevertheless carried out investigative
actions in official premises used by the prosecutor general, the first deputy
prosecutor general, as well as other employees and departments of the
Prosecutor General’s Office.”
On Sept. 7, Ruslan Kravchenko said he had no procedural
status in the Carthage case and viewed the situation involving him as an
attempt at political pressure.
That day, the prosecutor general also said he would not
resign voluntarily unless his colleagues, Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy or the Verkhovna Rada asked him to do so. Despite that, late on Sept.
7, Kravchenko
submitted his resignation.
During a hearing on Kropyva’s pretrial detention, a SAP
prosecutor described
his close relationship with Kravchenko.
The Anti-Corruption Action Center said that, judging by the
recordings, Kropyva had arranged renovation work at the house in Kozyn where
Kravchenko lives, including installing a gas generator for him.
Bihus.info journalists located the house in Kozyn that
Kravchenko may use and that was mentioned during a High Anti-Corruption Court
hearing. Bihus.Info published photos of the roughly 300-square-meter house. In
early 2026, the property was registered to a 73-year-old woman who had opened a
sole proprietorship a month earlier and is not listed among Kravchenko’s
relatives in his asset declaration, the report said.
A clip of a SAP prosecutor’s remarks in court, published by journalist Mykhailo Tkach,
also said Kropyva had arranged flights to Spain for Kravchenko’s wife and
partner shortly before the prosecutor general traveled there on an official
trip.
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