[1] In 1986–1987 he started to study at the Odesa National Academy of Telecommunications and in 1987–1992 the Kyiv Higher Military Engineering School of Signal, during which he served in the Soviet Armed Forces.

Following the beginning of th Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014, Bukharivev was the First Deputy of Director of the Security Service of Ukraine and Chief of the Main Department to combat corruption and organized crime from March to July 2014.

In November 2014 he was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada in single constituency electoral district 162 situated in Okhtyrka.

Bukhariev was appointed Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine by President Volodymyr Zelensky on 11 June 2019.

[3] He was immediately transferred to the post (he had also held in 2014) of Deputy Director of the Security Service of Ukraine, responsible for combating corruption and organized crime.