Vladimir Sungorkin, Russian journalist
Vladimir Sungorkin/video screenshot
Vladimir Sungorkin (died on September 14, 2022) was the editor-in-chief of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, a Soviet and Russian journalist, communist, and propagandist.
He spread anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western propaganda in one of the most popular Russian mass media and justified the war crimes of the Russian occupiers in Ukraine.
He repeatedly expressed his support for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. He approved the illegal annexation of Crimea. He said that during the so-called “referendum” in Crimea, he had been on the peninsula and seen “happy people.”
On the eve of a full-scale invasion, the Russian Federation claimed that “there are no good scenarios at all for Ukraine.”
*The material was created in cooperation with the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
Main statements
1. Shortly before the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, Sungorkin said that “there are no good scenarios at all for Ukraine” (February 16, 2022):
2. He stated that the West was simply trying to weaken Russia with the help of Ukraine (February 16, 2022):
