Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin resigned after Zelensky was accused of obtaining “fake disabilities” – Meduza

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andrei Kostin announced that he has resigned. A message about this appeared in the telegram channel of the Attorney General’s office on October 22.

Kostin said he decided to resign after Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky criticized officials who received “fake disabilities”. “Many shameful facts of abuse have been established in the system of the prosecutor’s office in Ukraine,” Kostin said.

“I believe that the position of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky is absolutely correct that not only should all illegal decisions on the provision of disability, corresponding pension and cancel other accruals, not only should there be clear legislative and organizational changes, but also personal responsibility. . Including political responsibility,” said Kostin.

Vladimir Zelensky said earlier that he held a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on October 22 regarding “abuse of officials from various government agencies by having a disability.” “Many facts about violations and obviously disabilities of officials have been established,” said the President of Ukraine.

Zelensky noted that “we separately investigated the situation in the system of the prosecutor’s office of Ukraine.” The President of Ukraine said that “responsibility for the situation now must be personal,” he ordered the government to “make personnel decisions.”

Zelensky order the system of institutions that issued “fake disabilities” to Ukrainians. Medical and social expert commissions, according to order President of Ukraine, issued on December 31, 2024.

Andrey Kostin is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. He has held the position of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine since July 2022, before that he was the deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada.