After Ruslan Kravchenko was appointed Prosecutor General in Ukraine, significant personnel changes began, which significantly affected the work of regional prosecutors' offices. Chernivtsi region became one of the illustrative examples: in July 2025, Viktor Logachov, previously known as the head of the Darnytsia District Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv, was appointed to the position of regional prosecutor.
Since then, law enforcement activity in Bukovina has increased dramatically. Over two months, more than a dozen criminal proceedings have been opened against local officials. The total amount of damages established is about 23 million hryvnias.
The greatest losses were caused by the deputy head of the Lviv branch of the State Land Cadastre Center, who is suspected of illegally allocating land plots based on forged documentation. According to the investigation, the state lost over 10 million hryvnias.
Another high-profile case concerns the acting director of the Bukovyna State Agricultural Research Station of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The official sold products at undervalued prices, causing losses of 5.2 million hryvnias.
No less telling is the case of the director of a municipal enterprise of the Sokyrian City Council, who committed illegal limestone mining. The losses were estimated at 5 million hryvnias.
Municipal enterprises also came under the prosecutor's attention: due to official negligence in the field of wastewater treatment, the city suffered losses of over 2.5 million hryvnias. And the director of the municipal enterprise "Misksvitlo" together with the head of a private company purchased lighting equipment at inflated prices, which caused losses of 2.2 million hryvnias.
Those involved in the cases are trying to defend themselves by calling the investigation political persecution. For example, the suspects in the Misksvitl case stated that their suspension was just a “PR move.”
Similar sentiments are echoed outside Bukovina. Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych, after searches at the city council over possible abuses of 1.25 billion hryvnia, called the actions of law enforcement officers "far-fetched" and not criminal.
The director of the Bukovyna Center for Electoral Technologies, Ihor Babiuk, drew a parallel with the high-profile tax case during the time of Yuriy Lutsenko. In his opinion, the current actions of the prosecutor's office are more like "eco-shaming", since the main corruption risks are concentrated in the defense sector and the highest echelons of power.
Thus, personnel changes in the prosecutor's office have already brought tangible results, but their further effectiveness will depend on whether cases can be brought to real verdicts, and not limited to high-profile statements.
