Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has suspended Ruslan Kravchenko from his position as Prosecutor General, days after Kravchenko submitted his resignation.
The presidential decree, numbered 905/2026, was published on the official website of the President of Ukraine, Ukrinform reported.
The document states: “Pursuant to Part Two of Article 11 of the Law of Ukraine ‘On the Legal Regime of Martial Law,’ I hereby order: to suspend Kravchenko Ruslan Andriyovych from the position of Prosecutor General.”
Kravchenko’s suspension came as Ukraine’s parliament prepares to consider his resignation on September 15.
Earlier on Monday, September 14, Kravchenko disclosed that after submitting his resignation on September 7, he had signed a notice of suspicion against Semen Kryvonos, the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
Kryvonos is accused of falsifying official documents to obtain an unlawful benefit on an especially large scale, as well as allegedly arranging a sham adoption to create grounds for avoiding legal liability.
Kravchenko subsequently released the notice of suspicion and related case materials involving the NABU director. He also disclosed that he had travelled abroad on a business trip.
NABU and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, however, rejected the move against Kryvonos, describing the suspicion notice as another development in what they consider an attack on Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions.
The dispute comes amid a wider confrontation between Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies and officials within the Prosecutor General’s Office.
Zelensky had earlier urged the Verkhovna Rada to promptly approve Kravchenko’s removal from office.
The Verkhovna Rada’s Committee on Law Enforcement also recommended on September 14 that lawmakers approve Kravchenko’s dismissal as Prosecutor General.
The controversy intensified after SAPO and NABU announced on September 4 that they had uncovered an alleged criminal organisation during an investigation known as Operation “Carthage”.
According to the anti-corruption agencies, the group allegedly collected bribes from fraudulent call centres and subsequently laundered the proceeds.
Investigators alleged that an official within the Prosecutor General’s Office established the organisation in mid-2025 and brought current prosecutors and close associates into the scheme.
NABU said the group operated a payment system under which money was allegedly exchanged for allowing shadow call centres to continue operating without interference.
The call centres were accused of defrauding Ukrainian and foreign citizens on a large scale.
The Prosecutor General’s Office responded by saying that the legality of nighttime searches conducted by NABU at the official premises of its leadership, as well as detectives’ access to materials from other criminal proceedings, required legal assessment.
On September 6, Kravchenko denied any involvement in protecting illegal call centres.
He said he had suspended a Prosecutor General’s Office employee implicated in the NABU investigation and instructed officials to prepare a decision concerning the employee’s dismissal.
Kravchenko announced his resignation late on September 7, bringing his tenure as Prosecutor General to an end amid the growing dispute over the anti-corruption investigation.
His suspension now comes as Parliament prepares to formally consider his resignation.
