Maksym Fomin – a collaborator, the so-called military correspondent
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Maksym Fomin is a blogger (pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky), a so-called military correspondent, publicist, and collaborator. He was convicted of bank robbery and served a prison sentence but in 2014, during the occupation of a correctional colony in the Donetsk region by Russian troops, he went to fight on the side of militants.
He called on the aggressor country, Russia, to wage war against Ukraine with “scorched-earth tactics.”
He called Ukraine the territory of the wild and the land of savages, accusing it of allegedly treating Russian prisoners of war in a bad way.
*The material was created in cooperation with the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
Main statements
1. He was glad that Russia started an armed invasion of Ukraine (February 24, 2022)
2. He called the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine “the best morning” (February 24, 2022)
3. He claimed that “all Ukrainians used to be Russians” (October 28, 2022)
The propagandist called Ukrainians “sick people who need to be treated” for their love of Ukraine and desire to communicate in the Ukrainian language.
4. He stated that not only Ukraine was allegedly fighting against Russia but also “the entire collective West” (November 26, 2022)
