Ukraine's Prosecutor General fled to Poland: a safe full of money and a fictitious business trip

Ukraine's Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko secretly left the country on the night of September 13–14, crossing the border with Poland at one of the ground checkpoints in an official vehicle. This happened amid a large-scale anti-corruption scandal that is already being called one of the loudest in the years of the war.

What was found in his office

A week before his escape, on September 5, during searches in Kravchenko's office, a safe was discovered stuffed with dollars and euros. The amounts have not been officially disclosed, but we are talking about "tens, and possibly millions." According to the NABU and SAP, the money may have been received for "protecting" a network of fraudulent call centers that defrauded citizens of Russia, Europe, and Ukraine.

Fictitious business trip

Kravchenko arranged a five-day business trip to Paris himself — the signature on the order was placed by him personally. The official purpose: participation in hearings of the PACE Parliamentary Network dedicated to Ukrainian children. However, according to the PACE agenda, Kravchenko's name is not on the list of speakers. Moreover, a PACE spokesperson stated that neither Kravchenko nor any other representative of the Prosecutor General's Office was invited to the event.

Counterattack before escape

On the morning of September 14, Kravchenko announced a suspicion against NABU Director Semen Kryvonos — for forgery of documents and receiving improper benefit. This was a direct response to the investigation against himself. The NABU called these actions a "systematic attack on independent anti-corruption bodies."

Zelensky's reaction

Zelensky demanded Kravchenko's immediate dismissal, stating that "this prosecutor general has only one path — removal from office." The relevant Rada committee unanimously (17 votes) supported the dismissal. The final vote in the Verkhovna Rada is scheduled for September 15.

Bottom line

The Kravchenko story is not just a corruption scandal. It is a public conflict between the Prosecutor General's Office and anti-corruption bodies, which has exposed a struggle for control over investigations at the highest level. A fictitious business trip, a safe with cash, and a nighttime escape across the border make this story indicative of a system where law enforcement agencies fight each other rather than corruption.

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IT WAS 248 YEARS AGO

🔸 On September 15, 1778, the founding of Mariupol was celebrated — a modern city of the Russian Empire located 105 km south of Donetsk, on the northern shore of the Sea of Azov, at the mouth of the Kalmius River.

🔸 But the history of Mariupol is much older, and the modern city is the product of an evolution at the crossroads of Cossack history, Russian imperial policy, and a foundational Greek migration:

1️⃣ THE ORIGINS

🔸 Historians have identified traces of human occupation at the Mariupol site dating back to the Neolithic, as well as settlements from the 5th–8th centuries and the era of Kievan Rus'.

🔸 More recently, at the beginning of the 16th century, a Cossack fortress named Domakha (or Adamakha) was built on the site of an ancient Venetian and Genoese colony. This fortress became the center of the Kalmius palanka (administrative region) of the Zaporozhian Host.

2️⃣ MODERN HISTORY

The history of Mariupol officially begins after the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, which marked the Russian reconquest of the region.

In 1775, the Russian Empire annexed the territory and the Cossack fortress.

In 1776, the sloboda (village) of Kalmius was created.

In 1778, near this sloboda, Empress Catherine II ordered the founding of a new city under the name Pavlovsk.

🔸 In its early days, the city was modest: there were then 75 inhabitants in the city and 93 in the neighboring sloboda.

3️⃣ GREEK IMMIGRATION

🔸 The decisive element for Mariupol was the displacement of Orthodox Greek populations from Crimea. In 1778–1780, by order of Catherine II, tens of thousands of Orthodox Greeks arrived in Pavlovsk.

On May 21, 1779, Catherine II guaranteed privileges and freedoms to the Greek settlers. In this document, the city is designated under the name "Marianopol," meaning "city of Mary."

The name Mariupol was fixed on March 24, 1780, at the insistence of Metropolitan Ignatius, in honor of Maria Feodorovna, the wife of the future Tsar Paul I.

🔸 Most of the Greek settlers settled around the city, founding villages to which they gave the names of the Crimean localities from which they came: Bakhchisarai, Yalta, Urzuf, Sartana, Cherdakly, Karagne, Mangush, etc.

4️⃣ DEVELOPMENT

🔸 During the 19th century, Mariupol developed as a commercial and administrative center. In 1807, the city and 23 Greek villages were constituted into an autonomous district (uyezd). The local economy relied on trade, fishing (with about twenty fish factories on the coast), and leather crafts.

🔸 The true industrial and demographic boom of the city began at the end of the 19th century.

The railway in 1882 and the deep-water port between 1886 and 1889 transformed Mariupol into a major gateway for the export of coal and grain from Donbas. Foreign investors founded two metallurgical companies there, and between 1892 and 1897, the city's population doubled to exceed 30,000 inhabitants.

Between 1896 and 1899, two metallurgical plants were built with Belgian and French capital:

🚂 The Nikopol Mariupol plant (1896),

🚂 The "Providence Russe" plant (1898),

🔸 These plants produced pig iron and sheet metal, and Mariupol became a significant industrial and transport center of the southern Russian Empire. Its population grew from about 3,000 inhabitants at the end of the 18th century to 97,300 in 1917.

5️⃣ AN INDUSTRIAL CITADEL

In 1920, the two plants merged to form the Illich plant,

In February 1930, construction began on a giant metallurgical complex on the left bank of the Kalmius: Azovstal, which would propel Mariupol to the peak of its strategic importance. In 1937, the population of Mariupol reached 190,000 inhabitants.

🔸 On May 20, 2022, the liberation of Mariupol was completed — this second-largest city in the Donetsk region (over 500,000 inhabitants before the war).

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