Yuriy Lutsenko

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vitaliyovych and the family name is Lutsenko.

Yuriy Lutsenko
Юрій Луценко
Lutsenko in 2018
14th Prosecutor General of Ukraine
In office
12 May 2016 – 29 August 2019
PresidentPetro Poroshenko
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Prime MinisterVolodymyr Groysman
Preceded byViktor Shokin
Succeeded byRuslan Riaboshapka[1]
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office
19 December 2008 – 11 March 2010
PresidentViktor Yushchenko
Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko
Oleksandr Turchynov (Acting)
Preceded byVasyl Tsushko
Succeeded byAnatolii Mohyliov
In office
4 February 2005 – 1 December 2006
PresidentViktor Yushchenko
Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko
Yuriy Yekhanurov
Viktor Yanukovych
Preceded byMykola Bilokon
Succeeded byVasyl Tsushko
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
14 May 2002 – 3 March 2005
ConstituencySocialist Party, No. 3[2]
In office
23 November 2007 – 19 December 2007
ConstituencyOur Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc, No. 1[3]
In office
27 November 2014 – 12 May 2016
ConstituencyPetro Poroshenko Bloc, No. 2[4]
Personal details
Born (1964-12-14) 14 December 1964 (age 59)
Rivne, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Political partySocialist Party (1991–2006)
People's Self-Defense (2006–2013)[5][6][7]
European Solidarity (2014–present)
SpouseIryna Lutsenko[8] (since 1988)
ChildrenOleksandr
Vitaliy
Alma materLviv Polytechnic National University
AwardsCommander of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise Fifth Class
Military service
Allegiance Ukraine
Branch/service Territorial Defense Forces[9]
Years of service2022–present
RankCaptain[10]
Battles/wars

Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Віталійович Луценко; born 14 December 1964) is a Ukrainian politician (whose most recent post was Prosecutor General of Ukraine from 12 May 2016[11] until 29 August 2019[1]), Ukrainian Interior Minister and member in the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[10]

Lutsenko has been a long serving people's deputy in the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament); first elected in 2002 and reelected in 2007 and 2014.[12]

Lutsenko was Minister of Internal Affairs in the two cabinets of Yulia Tymoshenko and in the cabinets of Yuriy Yekhanurov and Viktor Yanukovych. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is the Ukrainian police authority, and Lutsenko became the first civilian minister in February 2005.[13] Lutsenko is also a former leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, and a former leader of its faction in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament).[14][15][16]

In 2010, Lutsenko was charged with abuse of office and forgery by Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka,[17] in what was widely viewed as political retaliation for having investigated one of Yanukovych's cabinet members four years earlier.[18] In 2012, he was sentenced to four years in prison,[19] but was pardoned by Yanukovych in 2013.[20] In 2016, he became Ukraine's chief prosecutor under President Petro Poroshenko, during which time he was criticized for undermining Ukraine's newly established National Anti-Corruption Bureau. While in office, Lutsenko became a central figure in the Trump–Ukraine scandal, in which he worked with U.S. President Donald Trump to try to find incriminating information on Trump's then-presumed opponent in the 2020 United States presidential election, Joe Biden. He was dismissed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019; Trump later tried unsuccessfully to pressure Zelenskyy to reinstate him.[18]

Following the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Lutsenko joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine and has taken part in several battles since.[10] On 5 July 2023 Lutsenko announced that he would no longer serve in the Ukrainian Armed Forces due to an established disability.[21] According to him, he would "work towards victory as a volunteer".[21]

  1. ^ a b The new Attorney General was a former NAPC member Archived 7 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrayinska Pravda (29 August 2019)
  2. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the IV convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  3. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  4. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  5. ^ Lutsenko pledges allegiance to Yuia Tymoshenko Archived 3 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Z I K (24 August 2010)
  6. ^ (in Ukrainian) Хто ми Archived 21 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Yuriy Lutsenko's People's Self-Defense
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Twice2713 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Lutsenko’s wife says she is not about to go in for politics Archived 5 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, UNIAN (2 March 2012)
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lutsenko7391984 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ a b c d "Commander-in-Chief appoints former Ukraine's Prosecutor General as platoon commander of attack UAVs". Ukrainska Pravda. 22 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  11. ^ Lutsenko appointed prosecutor general in Ukraine Archived 13 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine, UNIAN (12 May 2016)
  12. ^ Cite error: The named reference bioChesno26301 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  13. ^ "On appointment of Yuriy Lutsenko as Minister of Internal Affairs". Order of President N 150/2005 (in Ukrainian). 4 February 2005. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
  14. ^ Poroshenko wants coalition to be formed before parliamentary elections Archived 3 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (27 August 2014) Solidarity Party to be renamed Bloc of Petro Poroshenko – congress Archived 31 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (27 August 2014)
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  17. ^ Ukraine prosecutors charge ally of opposition leader Tymoshenko Archived 15 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Kyiv Post (13 December 2010)
  18. ^ a b "From Paul Manafort to Donald Trump's fateful phonecall". The Economist. 12 October 2019. ISSN 0013-0613. Archived from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  19. ^ Cite error: The named reference got4year27212 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  20. ^ Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych pardons Yulia Tymoshenko allies Archived 20 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News (8 April 2013) Ukrainian leader Yanukovych pardons Tymoshenko ally Archived 22 November 2018 at the Wayback Machine, BBC News (7 April 2013) Ukrainian president pardons Lutsenko and Filipchuk – decree Archived 12 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (7 April 2013)
  21. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference 7409942LutsenkoUkr was invoked but never defined (see the help page).