{"id":1445658,"date":"2026-09-29T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelensky-removed-ruslan-kravchenko-from-the-national-security-and-defense-council\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T07:23:20","slug":"zelensky-removed-ruslan-kravchenko-from-the-national-security-and-defense-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelensky-removed-ruslan-kravchenko-from-the-national-security-and-defense-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky removed Ruslan Kravchenko from the National Security and Defense Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy removed former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/documents\/9702026-61821\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is stated<\/a> in Presidential Decree No. 970\/2026 of September 28.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cTo partially amend Article 1 of the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated July 19, 2025 No. 501\/2025 \u201cOn the Composition of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine\u201d, R. Kravchenko is to be removed from the composition of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n<p> The decree comes into force on the day of its publication. This document did not introduce another person to the NSDC in place of Kravchenko.<\/p>\n<p> Kravchenko had headed the Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office since June 2025. On September 14, Zelensky first <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyi-vidstoronyv-kravchenka-vid-posady-henprokurora\/\">suspended him from his post<\/a> , and on September 15, he officially dismissed him. The decree on dismissal No. 932\/2026 also did not contain an explanation of the reasons.<\/p>\n<p> Before that, Kravchenko stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/henprokuror-kravchenko-pidpysav-pidozru-dyrektoru-nabu-kryvonosu\/\">he had signed a report of suspicion to NABU Director Semen Kryvonos<\/a> . Kravchenko claimed that this involved forgery of documents and actions aimed at avoiding responsibility.<\/p>\n<p> On the same day, the Anti-Corruption Center announced that Kravchenko <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kravchenko-vyikhav-za-kordon\/\">had gone abroad<\/a> . He himself explained that he was on a business trip. Later it became known that the trip was to Paris for five days.<\/p>\n<p> On September 22, \u201cPryamiy\u201d also <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kolyshnia-teshcha-kravchenka-investuvala-670-tysiach-u-villu-v-dubai-rozsliduvannia\/\">wrote<\/a> about an investigation into Kravchenko\u2019s former mother-in-law\u2019s investments in real estate in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy removed former Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko from the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. This is stated in Presidential Decree No. 970\/2026 of September 28. \u201cTo partially amend Article 1 of the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated July 19, 2025 No. 501\/2025 \u201cOn the Composition of the National Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1295692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1445658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}