Prosecutor Kravchenko approved for Kyiv regional governor post

The Cabinet of Ministers approved the appointment of Ruslan Kravchenko as the new head of the Kyiv Oblast State Administration, the government's representative in the Rada, Taras Melnychuk, reported on Telegram on Friday.

"The appointment of Ruslan Kravchenko as the head of the Kyiv Oblast State Administration has been approved," the statement reads.

The heads of regional state administrations are appointed by presidential decrees.

After Russia's invasion in 2014, Kravchenko worked in the military prosecutor's office under the leadership of Anatoliy Matios, who was fired in the fall of 2019 and the military justice body itself was dissolved. Kravchenko was also a prosecutor in the treason case against former President Viktor Yanukovych.

Kravchenko's official biography is published on the Cabinet of Ministers' website.

On January 24, 2023, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed former head of the Kyiv Oblast State Administration Oleksiy Kuleba as deputy head of the President’s Office. Kuleba served as the Kyiv regional governor from May 21, 2022, to January 24, 2023.

In 2018, Kravchenko said that Ukraine needs an analog of the Mossad to deliver Yanukovych from Russia.

Since 2021, Kravchenko has been the head of the Bucha District Prosecutor's Office.

In 2023, he ran for the position of director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.