The State Border Guard Service denied rumors that former Prosecutor General Kravchenko left "at a call from Kyiv"

Former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko crossed the border at the Shehyni checkpoint at night 14 September 2026 of the year. During control, only an instruction to inform was triggered, not a ban on crossing the border.

In a comment to Interfax-Ukraine, border service spokesman Andriy Demchenko refuted the online rumors about Kravchenko’s departure allegedly “after a call from Kyiv” and called them absurd. According to him, the then head of the service presented inspectors with valid documents for an official business trip.

What the State Border Guard Service says about Kravchenko’s departure

During processing, an instruction from the authorized state body with index I was triggered, meaning informing.

This means that it is necessary to inform the appropriate state bodies about the person’s departure. According to the defined procedure, the initiator of the instruction was immediately notified by phone about this person’s departure from Ukraine.

— noted Demchenko.

An official notice with index I obliges border guards only to record the fact of crossing and promptly transmit the data to the initiator, but does not provide grounds to stop a person. No complaints or additional restrictions on border crossing were received from authorized state structures.

No cautions about Kravchenko’s departure from the initiator of the instruction were received either. Other instructions to the State Border Service that would restrict the departure of this person from Ukraine were not provided by authorized state bodies.

— added a spokesperson for the border service.

The agency stressed that state structures have a regulation of border guards’ actions in case of restrictions being set, including prohibition on departure, search, or in-depth verification. Since there was no direct ban in the system, border guards acted strictly within the law.

Incidentally, Odessa businessman Volodymyr Galanternyk could have helped former Ruslan Kravchenko settle in Austria. The entrepreneur has long been in hiding abroad due to suspicion of causing substantial damages to the community of Odesa.