Zelenskyy appoints Kovalskyi acting prosecutor general
11 sourcesUpdated Sep 17, 2026
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed decree No. 946/2026 on September 17, 2026, naming Anton Kovalskyi acting prosecutor general. Parliament had approved Ruslan Kravchenko's dismissal on September 15. Kovalskyi, 42, has led the Khmelnytskyi Oblast prosecutor's office since July 2025. He entered the prosecution service in 2011, served as Vinnytsia Oblast deputy chief from 2020 to 2021, and headed Chernivtsi Oblast from 2021 to 2025. NABU searched Kravchenko's personal office in early September in a call-center protection racket probe, and a prosecutor described as his confidant was charged. Kyiv Independent reported Kravchenko left Ukraine early on September 14 for a Paris conference that organizers said they had not expected him to attend. On Monday, Kravchenko accused NABU director Semen Kryvonos of falsifying documents and staging a fake 2009 child adoption. NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office denied the accusations. Kyiv Independent, citing Ukrainska Pravda, reported Kovalskyi as the leading candidate for the permanent post, with Dnipropetrovsk Oblast chief prosecutor Valeriy Prykhozhanov also under consideration.
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