Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko submitted his resignation on Monday, Sept. 7, calling the move a “political decision” days after anti-corruption investigators searched premises used by him and other senior officials at the Prosecutor General’s Office. “This is a political decision. And I made it consciously,” Kravchenko said in a statement on Telegram, adding that he did not want the prosecutor general’s post to become an instrument of political confrontation.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Kravchenko said his position regarding the allegations against him had not changed. He thanked prosecutors working on criminal cases, assisting victims, documenting Russian war crimes and defending Ukraine’s interests, as well as President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Verkhovna Rada, and asked them to accept his resignation. The announcement marked an abrupt turn from comments Kravchenko made only hours earlier. Speaking to journalists on Monday, he said he did not intend to resign voluntarily, although he would leave if Zelensky initiated his dismissal or parliament approved such a move. “I am not clinging to the position,” he said at the time. Ukrainska Pravda later reported, citing political sources, that Zelensky met with Kravchenko and Davyd Arakhamia, head of the ruling Servant of the People parliamentary faction, on Sept. 7 to discuss whether Kravchenko would remain in office.