Leonid Pasichnyk – so-called head of the pseudo-republic of LPR
Leonid Pasichnyk/ Telegram
Leonid Pasichnyk is the so-called “head” of the pseudo-republic “LPR”, a former employee of the Security Service of Ukraine, and a collaborator.
Before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, he had thanked the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for the fact that he allegedly “conducted consistent work to end the war in Donbas.”
On February 16, 2022, Pasichnyk recorded a video message to Putin about joining Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia with a request to start a so-called “special operation”.
He claimed that the so-called “referendum” on Crimea’s “accession” to Russia had been held in 2014 without any external pressure.
*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 called the population of Ukraine “hostages of the terrorist, nationalist and fascist regime in Ukraine (March 22, 2022)
He stated that the “troops” of the pseudo-republic “LPR” would continue their offensive in other regions of Ukraine after the battles with the Ukrainian military in the region.
2. He stated that the majority of residents of the so-called “LPR” wanted the pseudo-republic to join Russia’s aggressor country (May 12, 2022)
3. He stated that Kyiv was allegedly gradually dragging NATO into Ukraine and wanted to “draw half of the globe into a full-scale war” (September 14, 2022)
4. He said that NATO was allegedly involved in the war in Ukraine (November 17, 2022)
