Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said that he does not support public discussion of family circumstances, but considers it necessary to respond when private stories are used as a tool for political manipulation. He said this in a comment to the Judicial and Legal Newspaper, explaining the information about possible Russian passports held by relatives and the issue of state secrets among members of his team.
According to Kravchenko, his parents divorced in 2020, since then his mother and sister have been living in Kyiv, and he last communicated with his father in 2022. He does not know whether his father received a Russian passport, as they are not in contact. The Prosecutor General emphasized that he is not responsible for the decisions of his relatives, either as a son or as an official.
He commented separately on the information about his deputies, noting that in wartime, society is particularly sensitive to any ties with the aggressor state, but the principle of personal responsibility remains, and the law cannot be replaced by public accusations.
In particular, regarding First Deputy Maria Vdovichenko, Kravchenko said that her autobiographies contained information about close relatives, including those living in temporarily occupied territories and in the Russian Federation. He also noted that this information was disclosed during the certification interviews, and before the appointment, a request was sent to the Security Service of Ukraine, which found no grounds for prohibiting the appointment.
Regarding Deputy Maksym Krym, Kravchenko explained that his wife lived in Crimea until 2015 and, according to him, could have been a victim of mass forced passportization after the occupation of the peninsula. The Prosecutor General emphasized that Ukraine does not recognize documents imposed by the occupying authorities, and no conflict of interest or influence of these circumstances on the official’s professional activities has been established.
Regarding Deputy Viktor Logachov, Kravchenko said that his family comes from Luhansk and lost a significant part of its assets in the temporarily occupied territory after 2014, and has been living in Kyiv since 2014. He added that there is no evidence of visits to the temporarily occupied territory or control over enterprises, and that raiding and re-registration in absentia are, in his words, typical practices of the occupation administrations.
Kravchenko also noted that Maria Vdovichenko, Maxim Krym, and Viktor Logachov have valid access to state secrets, granted after checks by the Security Service of Ukraine.
