Prosecutor General of Ukraine

The prosecutor general is appointed to office by the president of Ukraine with the consent of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament). The prosecutor is dismissed from office after serving a six-year term, or on order of the president, Its goals are to modernize the Soviet-era bureaucracy, to enhance inter-agency efficiency and international cooperation, and to fight corruption. ==Structure==

• Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea • Prosecutor's Office of Cherkasy Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Chernihiv Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Chernivtsi Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Donetsk Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Kharkiv Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Kherson Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Khmelnytskyi Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Kirovohrad Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv City • Prosecutor's Office of Kyiv Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Luhansk Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Lviv Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Mykolaiv Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Odesa Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Poltava Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Rivne Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Sumy Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Ternopil Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Vinnytsia Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Volyn Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Zakarpattia Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Zaporizhia Oblast • Prosecutor's Office of Zhytomyr Oblast • Military Prosecutor's Office of Joint Forces • Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukrainian Central Region • Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukrainian Southern Region • Military Prosecutor's Office of Ukrainian Western Region • National Academy of Prosecution of Ukraine Separate organizations • Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office • Military Prosecutor • General Inspectorate • Primary Trade Union Organization of the Prosecutor General Office of Ukraine employees Leadership • Prosecutor General – Iryna Venediktova (17 March 2020) • Deputy Prosecutor General – Viktor Trepak (8 October 2019) • Deputy Prosecutor General – Günduz Mamedov (18 October 2019) • Deputy Prosecutor General—Director of Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office – Nazar Kholodnytskyi (30 November 2015) ==History==

Early period came into force, at which point the republican prosecution office of Ukraine was subordinated to the prosecutor general of the USSR. Post-Soviet period Following Ukrainian independence in 1991, the prosecutor general wielded considerable power as a legacy of the Soviet Union state prosecutor's office. Many of the office's functions were expanded in 1991, but in 2016 the powers of the office were decreased and limited. Prior to January 2017, the term of authority of the prosecutor was five years. Since January 2017 this was increased to six years. This list below shows prosecutors of independent Ukraine. In the absence of the prosecutor general, the office is headed by their first deputy as the acting prosecutor general. ==See also==