KYIV: Ukraine\u2019s parliament on Tuesday appointed Ruslan Kravchenko, one of the key investigators of alleged Russian war crimes during the occupation of the Kyiv region in 2022, as prosecutor general.<\/p>\n
Kravchenko, 35, is now head of the state tax administration, and before that chaired the Kyiv region military administration.<\/p>\n
He was involved in the recording and prosecuting of alleged Russian atrocities in the town of Bucha, which was occupied for 33 days in the early stages of Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion. Russia denies accusations of numerous executions, rapes and torture during the occupation.<\/p>\n
Krav\u0441henko was also a prosecutor in Ukraine\u2019s ousted President Viktor Yanukovych\u2019s treason case.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor general\u2019s post has remained vacant since October, after Andriy Kostin resigned following a scandal around officials receiving fake disability status and avoiding military service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KYIV: Ukraine\u2019s parliament on Tuesday appointed Ruslan Kravchenko, one of the key investigators of alleged Russian war crimes during the occupation of the Kyiv region in 2022, as prosecutor general. Kravchenko, 35, is now head of the state tax administration, and before that chaired the Kyiv region military administration. He was involved in the recording […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n