The Prosecutor's Office of Crimea and Sevastopol has a new head

The Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol has a new head. Nariman Suleymanov was appointed to this position by the order of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko on January 14, 2026. Prior to his new appointment, he held a senior position in the regional prosecutor's office of Dnipropetrovs'k region.

This was reported by Holos Kryma.

The change of leadership took place in connection with the completion of the five-year cadence of the previous head of the department, Igor Ponochovny, who left office in the fall of 2025.

Nariman Suleymanov is an experienced specialist who is well acquainted with the specifics of working under the occupation of the peninsula. In 2020, he already worked in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea's prosecutor's office as a deputy head, where he oversaw the area of combating crime in the context of armed conflict.

Commenting on his appointment on social media, Suleymanov noted that he was returning to his native agency "home" and thanked his colleagues from Dnipro for their professionalism and resilience under daily shelling. The new head of the prosecutor's office took up his duties immediately. The priorities of his work for the next five years will be to document war crimes committed by the Russian Federation, investigate collaboration and treason, and protect the rights of Ukrainian citizens who remain in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol.

In particular, a Yalta teacher who helped the occupiers Russify Crimean schools was detained in Kyiv region. A joint operation by the ARC Prosecutor's Office and the SBU exposed the collaborator, who was involved in the implementation of Russian 'educational standards' on the peninsula. Now she faces criminal liability.

The woman, who has pedagogical experience, has been organizing education according to Russian standards since 2014, and in 2023 she voluntarily headed one of the secondary schools in Yalta. As a 'director', the suspect personally approved curricula in accordance with the requirements of the aggressor country. In addition to administrative work, she was actively involved in the ideological processing of children: she involved schoolchildren in propaganda campaigns dedicated to the anniversaries of the illegal referendum and the "exploits" of the Russian military.

Despite her active anti-Ukrainian activities, at the end of December 2025, the woman decided to visit her relatives in the government-controlled territory. However, law enforcement officers quickly exposed her in the Kyiv region. During the search , they found Russian passports, equipment and communication devices.

Катерина Глушко