President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin from his post. This is stated in the text of Decree No. 745/2024 published on the President's website.
"Dismiss Kostin Andriy Yevhenovych from the post of Prosecutor General," the document reads.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the decree on 31 October.
- On 28 October, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy submitted a motion to the Verkhovna Rada to dismiss Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin.
- The very next day, the Verkhovna Rada agreed to the resignation of Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, who had held the post since July 2022.
- Kostin resigned amid a scandal involving corruption in the Military Medical Commission and prosecutors who had been claiming disability to receive payments. He announced his resignation on 22 October, citing a meeting of the National Security and Defence Council.
- On the same day, the heads of the regional prosecutor's offices in Zaporizhzhya, Rivne, Ternopil, Kharkiv, Cherkasy Regions and the specialised defence prosecutor's office in the Southern region submitted their resignations.
- Kostin has long been named as one of the candidates for the post of ambassador to the Netherlands, where the International Criminal Court is located.