Ukraine’s prosecutor general resigned, accused the country’s top anti-corruption official of crimes, and left the country. What happens now?

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Ukrainian Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko was suspended by decree from President Zelensky after resigning September 8, following searches of his office by anti-corruption agencies. Kravchenko then posted a video accusing anti-corruption bureau director Semen Kryvonos of a crime and naming him a suspect, a notice Kryvonos says he never received, while Kravchenko accused the agencies of unlawfully seizing case materials on their own employees.

Kravchenko has since left Ukraine in an official vehicle, describing it as an ‘overseas business trip’ to brief international partners on the anti-corruption bodies. Zelensky says dismissal was Kravchenko's only option and that he told him so directly; Ukraine's parliament is set to vote on the dismissal.

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Accusing your own watchdog of a crime and then hopping in the government car for parts unknown is not the move of a man confident in how the paperwork reads. If this were a small-town sheriff who quit Friday and skipped town Sunday after accusing the auditor of theft, everybody in the county would already know how that story ends.

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