After that administration largely collapsed due to the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive, he has served as prime minister of Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast.

In September 2017, he became Deputy Governor of Krasnodar Krai, where he was responsible in part for municipal infrastructure, investment, and local government property.

[2][4] In December 2021, he was charged with accepting a large bribe in the form of a very expensive gun worth 1.6 million rubles three years earlier.

Around September 8, the administration was moved to Vovchansk due to the 2022 Kharkiv counteroffensive, and two days later on the 10th, the Russian officials also left that city as well.

[7] On November 25,[8][better source needed] 2022, he was appointed Prime Minister of the Russian-occupied parts of the Kherson Oblast, where he deals with integrating the institutions of the occupied region into the legal, economic, and social system of the Russian Federation.