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The story of the current Prosecutor General of Ukraine fleeing the country looked extraordinary from the very beginning. Of course, high-ranking officials even before Ruslan Kravchenko used official business trips as a way to leave for good.
But to craft such a finely tuned legal position to obtain political asylum while still sitting in the office of the country’s chief prosecutor in central Kyiv... No one had yet either thought of it or dared to do it.
First, now, if and when Ruslan Kravchenko receives a suspicion/indictment from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), he can easily manipulate proceedings in courts of any jurisdiction, since he prudently attacked NABU and SAPO first, signing a suspicion/indictment against the acting NABU director Semen Kryvonos a few hours before crossing the border.
In this way the Prosecutor General not only personally signed for that fateful business trip, but also preemptively created the preconditions for his subsequent defense.
After all, Kravchenko can now say that the anti-corruption investigators’ suspicion/indictment is revenge for the one he signed.
Second, if and when an objective need arises to extradite Kravchenko to Ukraine, doing so will be extremely difficult. At least as of now, he appears to have chosen one of the safest European hideouts for Ukrainian figures in corruption cases — Austria.
Ukrainska Pravda continues to examine the adventures of the now-former Prosecutor General:
👉 https://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2026/09/23/8054812/
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