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In the morning of 17 September 2026, an order numbered №946/2026 appeared on the website of the President of Ukraine assigning the duties of Prosecutor General.
According to that order, to fill the legal vacuum after the flight of the previous Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko from Ukraine, Anton Kovalsky, who until then had served as head of the Khmelnytskyi regional prosecutor’s office, will assume the duties.
Who Anton Kovalsky is and whether he has a chance to transform from acting Prosecutor General into a fully empowered Prosecutor General — read about it in the material on Channel 24.
Biography of Anton Kovalsky
Anton Anatoliyovych Kovalsky was born in Vinnytsia on 12 May 1984, and at the time of his appointment as acting Prosecutor General of Ukraine he is 42 years old.
Mr. Kovalsky has a professional “prosecutorial education” — he graduated from the Kyiv National Academy of the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine in 2011 with a degree in jurisprudence. Since Kovalsky was 27 at the time of graduation, it can be assumed this was his second higher education; however, there is currently no information confirming or denying that thesis.
In the same 2011 year, Kovalsky began working in the prosecutor’s offices in his native Vinnytsia, where he advanced from senior investigator to senior prosecutor of the city prosecutor’s office.
Kovalsky then worked at the Vinnytsia regional prosecutor’s office, holding positions as senior prosecutor; head of the department overseeing compliance with laws by fiscal service bodies in the supervision of criminal proceedings; head of the supervision in criminal proceedings department; and deputy prosecutor of Vinnytsia region.
From September 2020 to October 2021 Anton Kovalsky served as deputy head of the Vinnytsia regional prosecutor’s office; in November 2021 he was promoted and became head of the Chernivtsi regional prosecutor’s office.
Since 1 July 2025, Anton Kovalsky has been appointed head of the Khmelnytskyi regional prosecutor’s office.
The Augean stables in Khmelnytskyi
Kovalsky’s appointment was preceded by one of the loudest “prosecutorial scandals” in recent years. In 2024 it turned out that the regional prosecutor’s office had almost entirely arranged fake disabilities for itself through the scandalous head of the regional medical-social examination commission, Tetiana Krupa.
As a result of that scandal, the previous head of the Khmelnytskyi regional prosecutor’s office, Oleksiy Oliynyk, submitted a resignation letter, and dozens of prosecutors had their disability status canceled, although they later regained it through the courts.
Kovalsky arrived at the Khmelnytskyi regional prosecutor’s office right after its dismantling and set about putting things in order (his most famous decision was the dismissal, after a sex scandal, of a colleague.
Prosecutor of the Khmelnytskyi regional prosecutor’s office Anton “Adonis” Vendel filmed erotic content from his official office for the OnlyFans platform and sent intimate messages and images to employees of local courts. For this, in January 2026 he was fired.
A new challenge
It was from Khmelnytskyi that Mr. Kovalsky was called to restore order in the Office of the Prosecutor General, which arose after the rapid flight of Ruslan Kravchenko, the criminal prosecution of his deputies, and the expedited vote in the Verkhovna Rada for his resignation.
Now Anton Kovalsky faces a roughly similar task to the one in Khmelnytskyi, but on the scale of the entire country.
On 17 September 2026, Kovalsky became acting Prosecutor General; next, President Zelensky must decide whether he plans to submit the prosecutor’s candidacy to the Verkhovna Rada for a vote.
It is currently unknown whether Mr. Kovalsky potentially has the votes necessary for election. We assume that until now he was unknown to the majority of deputies.
Personal life of Anton Kovalsky
The new acting Prosecutor General is 42 years old. He is married; his wife’s name is Oksana Ivanivna, and she is engaged in business (in 2025 she declared 3 552 364 hryvnias of income).
The couple raise two children — a son, Volodymyr, and a daughter, Oleksandra.
The prosecutor’s declaration lists a rented apartment of 92 square meters, their own residence in Chernivtsi, a small plot of land, and several retail premises for selling sports nutrition registered to his wife; a NISSAN QASHQAI from the 2019 model year. The family also has about 2 million hryvnias in cash.
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