Prosecutor General and his assistants found to have family ties to Crimea and Russia

Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko and his deputies were found to have family ties to Russia and occupied Crimea. Journalists found out that the officials' relatives have Russian citizenship, business and documents related to the territories under Russian control.

This is stated in the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Center "Mezha".

Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko, who had previously publicly justified checks on a possible "Russian trace" in the activities of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, has found himself at the center of an investigation into his own family ties to the aggressor state.

According to journalists, the Prosecutor General's father, Andriy Kravchenko, was granted Russian citizenship in June 2023. After that, he repeatedly crossed the border between Russia and the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk region.

During the summer and early fall of 2023, he passed through automobile checkpoints at least four times, in particular between the Voronezh and Rostov regions of Russia and the occupied territory. At first, he used a car with Ukrainian registration, and later - with Russian license plates.

The article also describes the business activities of relatives of one of the Deputy Prosecutor General's relatives. In particular, journalists found Russian business of his family in Viktor Logachev, who was appointed prosecutor by Kravchenko in December 2025. In Russian registers, they found the company Vodomyr, registered in late November 2022.

The company operates in the occupied Luhansk region, sells drinking water through kiosks, and has an authorized capital of 3 million rubles. Its minority owner is the father of the Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Serhiy Logachev. Since its registration, the company has paid more than 800 thousand rubles in taxes to the Russian budget.

Russian passports were found among relatives of another Deputy Prosecutor General, Maksym Krym, who was appointed to the post in June 2025. In particular, his wife was born in Crimea, and her parents, Larysa and Viacheslav Yushkov, still live in Sevastopol. They received Russian passports immediately after the occupation of the peninsula, and the authenticity of their documents and tax numbers was confirmed through the services of the Russian tax service. The experts found out that the wife of the Deputy Prosecutor General herself received a Russian tax number.

Another deputy, Maria Vdovychenko, also has ties to Russia and is involved in several high-profile investigations. Her father owns a number of operating businesses in the temporarily occupied Crimea, while also buying real estate and a Range Rover car in the government-controlled territory. Vdovychenko herself uses these assets. In 2014, the deputy's brothers received Russian citizenship: one of them defected to the enemy and holds a senior position in the Russian military prosecutor's office, the other, a military man, also had a Russian passport, after which he quietly worked in Ukrainian TCCs and received another apartment from Ukraine.

The Anti-Corruption Center emphasized that the leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office has access to criminal proceedings, including those in the defense sector, as well as to restricted information. Against the backdrop of a full-scale war, such ties, according to the authors of the investigation, pose potential risks to state security.

Last year, in Odesa, the court extended the arrest of the deputy head of the Territorial Department of the BES in the region, who is suspected of collaborating with the Russian occupation administration in Luhansk region and assisting the aggressor state. It was Oleg Skupinsky. The investigation also found that the company conducted public fundraising for the Russian military.

Анна Бальчінос