Ruslan Kravchenko is a Ukrainian politician and prosecutor, former head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine (December 31, 2024–June 17, 2025), former head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration (April 10, 2023– Dec. 30, 2024), and current Prosecutor General of Ukraine (since June 21, 2025).
Born on March 14, 1990, in Severodonetsk (now Sievierodonetsk), Luhansk Oblast. The city is currently under Russian occupation.
Education
In 2005, he graduated from School No. 8 in Severodonetsk. From 2005 to 2007, he studied at the Ivan Bohun Kyiv Military Lyceum. From 2007 to 2012, he studied at the Military Law Faculty of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University of Ukraine, where he received a master’s degree in law and the military rank of “lieutenant of justice.”
Career
On August 15, 2012, he became an investigator with the Sevastopol Prosecutor’s Office. Within a year, Kravchenko was promoted to senior investigator, a position he held until the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
In 2014, he became a senior prosecutor in the Rivne, and later the Lviv, Prosecutor’s Office, overseeing compliance with laws in the military sphere of Ukraine’s Western region.
From 2015 to 2019, he worked at the Main Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine as a department prosecutor and deputy head of the procedural guidance department.
From 2019 to 2020, he served as Deputy Military Prosecutor of the Central Region of Ukraine, and was transferred to the position of prosecutor in the Department of Procedural Guidance and Oversight of Law Enforcement during Operational and Investigative Activities of the Directorate for the Organization of Procedural Guidance, Oversight of the Enforcement of Court Decisions, and during Operational and Investigative Activities of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the Military and Defense Sphere of the Central Region.
2020–2021 — Head of the Department of Procedural Supervision in Criminal Proceedings Concerning Crimes in the Defense-Industrial Complex of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Military and Defense Affairs of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
In 2021, he headed the Bucha District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv Oblast. From March 31, 2022, he led the documentation and investigation of Russian war crimes in Bucha.
In April 2023, pursuant to Decree No. 204/2023 of the President of Ukraine dated April 10, 2023, he was appointed head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration.
In 2023, Kravchenko participated in the competition for the position of director of the NABU but failed the integrity interview.
On December 30, 2024, the president dismissed Kravchenko from his position as head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration.
On December 31, 2024, Kravchenko was appointed head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine.
On June 17, 2025, the Verkhovna Rada, upon the recommendation of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, approved Kravchenko’s appointment as Prosecutor General. On June 21, he was appointed Prosecutor General of Ukraine by presidential decree. On July 8, he was appointed to the National Security and Defense Council.
The Yanukovych Case
Kravchenko was the lead prosecutor in the high-profile case that resulted in fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych being found guilty of high treason and aiding and abetting the waging of an aggressive war. Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko had entrusted him with this critical mission in the landmark trial.
ATO
In 2014–2015, he participated in the anti-terrorist operation while performing his official duties as a prosecutor with the 33rd Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Southern Region of Ukraine (Debaltseve, Artemivsk—since 2016, Bakhmut). He was granted combatant status. He did not participate in combat operations.
Assets
According to his 2024 declaration, Kravchenko and his wife, Olena Shkrobanez, jointly own one apartment with an area of 90.6 square meters. He rents a second apartment, which is 61.5 square meters. Another apartment he owns is under construction.
The family’s only car, a Mercedes-Benz C250, belongs to his wife.
In 2024, Kravchenko earned 1,395,109 hryvnias (116,000 per month). His wife earned 1,492,897 hryvnias at the United Nations (UN) office in Ukraine.
Kravchenko also declared $40,000 in cash, and his wife declared $20,000.
Personal life
Divorced. No children.
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