Evgeniy Poddubny

Evgeniy Poddubny (Russian: Евгений Евгеньевич Поддубный aka Evgeny Poddubny or Yevgeniy Poddubny; born August 22, 1983, Belgorod, Belgorod Region, USSR) is a Russian war correspondent and propagandist , special correspondent for Russia-24 and Russia-1 television channels.

Evgeniy Poddubny
Born (1983-08-22) August 22, 1983
Belgorod, U.S.S.R.
Alma materBelgorod State University
Occupation
  • Propagandist
Years active2001–present

Biography

Poddubny was born on 22 August 1983, in Belgorod. His father, Evgeniy Pavlovich Poddubny, and mother, Irina Mikhailovna Poddubnaya are surgeons. He received his primary education in 20th secondary school in Belgorod. He graduated from Belgorod State University, with a master's degree in psychology. He speaks English and currently studying Arabic.[1] From 2001 to 2011, he worked as a special correspondent in the Directorate of Information Programs at the "TV Center" channel. Since September 2011, he has been a special correspondent for Russia-24 and Russia-1. Covered local conflicts in different countries. He has repeatedly worked in the Russian-occupied territories of Georgia and Ukraine, where he justified war crimes and Russian aggression against those countries.[1]

On February 23, 2018, war correspondents Evgeniy Poddubny and Alexander Sladkov performed a song together with Joseph Kobzon at a holiday concert in the Kremlin dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Red Army and Defender of the Fatherland Day.[2]

In 2018, Evgeniy Poddubny became a confidant of Vladimir Putin as a candidate in a presidential elections.[3]

Work in Ukraine

Poddubny is frequently described as one of the Kremlin's 'main' / 'lead' propagandists, and his work is frequently cited as 'Kremlin propaganda'. [4]

From early 2014, Evgeny Poddubny, as a special correspondent for the Russia-24 TV channel, has covered the Revolution of Dignity, the Russian annexation of Crimea, the Russo-Ukrainian war. Poddubny's reporting has consistently aligned with the position of the Kremlin - he calls the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine a "special operation" and spreads propaganda narratives about Ukraine as a Neo-Nazi state. Denies Russian war crimes against civilians, provides "expert" comments, creates a positive image of the Russian military, and spoil the image of Ukrainian government and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Security Service of Ukraine declares suspicion to Poddubny for his illegal activity in Ukraine.[5]

In May 2022, thanks to a report by Evgeniy Poddubny and Alexander Kots, the Ukrainian military managed to locate and destroy the Russian military equipment, that had previously destroyed the bridge between the cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.[6] On July 9, 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine informed Evgeniy Poddubny that he was suspected of distributing materials in which he justified Russia's aggression against Ukraine and supported the actions of the Russian military.[7]

He has been accused of being 'illegally in Ukraine', and 'justifying Russian war crimes in Ukraine'. [8]

Work in Syria

As a Russia-24 special correspondent, Poddubny has repeatedly reported from Syria, covering the confrontation between the government and the armed opposition during the civil war in Syria. His reporting has consistently followed the Kremlin narrative. On September 16, 2012, his film "The Battle for Syria" premiered on the Russia-24 TV channel. The film was translated into several European languages.[9] In June 2013, Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan accused the Russia-1 and Russia-24 TV channels and Poddubny himself of violating elementary standards of journalistic ethics for his report "Syrian Jihad Turns the Opposition into Radicals." The report focused on the fact that one of the Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in Aleppo is coordinated by Ravshan Gazakov, a citizen of Turkmenistan.[10]

On September 12, 2013, the Russia-24 TV channel aired an exclusive interview with the President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad, which the head of state gave to Evgeniy Poddubny. In the conversation, President Assad stated publicly for the first time that the Syrian Arab Republic is acceding to the Chemical Weapons Convention and transferring arsenals of chemical warfare agents and production facilities for destruction under the supervision of OPCW monitors to international control.[11] As a result of the interview with President Bashar al-Assad, U.S. President Barack Obama renounced his intentions to conduct a large-scale military operation against the SAR.[12]

In April 2018, Poddubny conducted an investigation into the circumstances of the chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma, which refuted the involvement of Syrian government troops, supporting the Assad regime's denials of involvement. However, investigative journalists from The New York Times and Bellingcat found that the Syrian military most likely carried out the chemical attack, dropping a cylinder of chlorine gas from a helicopter.[13]

In April 2021, at the monthly UN Security Council meeting on chemical weapons in Syria, U.S. representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield stressed that Russia was obstructing efforts to hold the Syrian government accountable.[14]

International sanctions

On May 4, 2022, the UK imposed sanctions against Evgeniy Poddubny for spreading disinformation and propaganda about the events in Ukraine. Russian military propagandists Alexander Kots and Dmitry Steshin were also included in sanctions list. They were banned from entering the UK and their British assets are frozen.[15] [16] On May 18, 2022, Australia imposed sanctions against Evgeniy Poddubny, Alexander Kots, and Dmitry Steshin.[17]

Awards
  • Medal "Valor and Bravery" of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (2020) [19]

See also

References
  1. "Евгений Поддубный: корреспондент в бронике" (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  2. Иосиф Кобзон, Е.Поддубный и А.Сладко-Песня военного корреспондента(23.02.2018), archived from the original on 2022-08-25, retrieved 2022-07-17
  3. "ЦИК зарегистрировал 154 доверенных лица Путина". Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 22 January 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  4. "Russian propagandist Poddubny formally suspected of justifying Russian war crimes". Archived from the original on 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-22.
  5. "СБУ оголосила про підозру пропагандисту ВДТРК Піддубному". detector.media (in Ukrainian). 2022-07-15. Archived from the original on 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  6. "Завдяки російським пропагандистам знищено техніку, яка зруйнувала міст між Сєверодонецьком та Лисичанськом – Гайдай". Mind.ua (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  7. "Повідомлення про підозру та повістки про виклик Піддубного Є.Є. на 18.07.2022, 20.07.2022, 22.07.2022 (оригінал та переклад)". www.gp.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  8. "Russian propagandist Poddubny formally suspected of justifying Russian war crimes over 'reports' from Borodyanka, Gostomel". 9 July 2022. Archived from the original on 25 August 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  9. "Битва за Сирию: взгляд с линии фронта". vesti.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-10-04. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  10. "МИД ТУРКМЕНИИ ПРЕДЪЯВИЛ ПРЕТЕНЗИИ РОССИЙСКОМУ ТЕЛЕВИДЕНИЮ". ASTRAKHANPOST. 27 June 2013. Archived from the original on 25 August 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  11. "Вести. Эфир от 12.09.2013". smotrim.ru. Archived from the original on 2021-03-05. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  12. "Обама: обращение к нации". ГОЛОС АМЕРИКИ (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2022-07-17. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  13. "The OPCW FFM's Report on the April 7th 2018 Douma Chemical Attack Versus The Open Source Evidence". bellingcat. 2019-03-01. Archived from the original on 2019-03-02. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  14. "США в ООН звинуватили Росію у «поширенні дезінформації» щодо хімічної зброї у Сирії". Радіо Свобода (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2022-07-17. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  15. Parekh, Marcus (2022-05-04). "Britain sanctions Russian war correspondents in crackdown on propaganda". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 2022-07-08. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  16. "Russia cut off from UK services". GOV.UK. Archived from the original on 2022-07-17. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  17. "Австралія запровадила нові санкції проти російських пропагандистів". Національна рада України з питань телебачення і радіомовлення. 2022-05-18. Archived from the original on 2022-07-17. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  18. "Шойгу наградил медалями журналистов за освещение операции в Сирии". tass.ru. 17 April 2016. Archived from the original on 17 July 2022. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
  19. "В связи с обнаружением места гибели российского летчика Романа Филипова Председатель СК России дал ряд поручений и подписал приказ о награждении военного корреспондента". Official website of Investigative Committee of Russia. 19 March 2020. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
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