Yevgeny Popov, Russian propagandist, TV presenter
Yevgeny Popov/ social networks
Yevgeny Popov is a Russian propagandist, host of the program “60 Minutes” on the TV channel “Russia-1,” husband of propagandist Olga Skabeeva, since 2021 – a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
Popov began making fake stories about alleged “Ukrainian Nazism” in 2013.
Before the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a propagandist stated that Russia’s primary goal was to “protect Russian culture and the Russian language in Ukraine.”
After the invasion, he declared that there was supposedly a “great war between Russia and the Anglo-Saxon world” going on in Ukraine.
In October 2022, after 8 months of brutal Russian bombing of Ukrainian cities and killings of civilians, Popov claimed that the Russian military was not attacking or shelling Ukrainian cities or civilian infrastructure. He cynically said that all Russian missiles were “aimed at energy infrastructure, communication hubs, and military headquarters.”
*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 stated that Russia was not going to occupy Ukrainian cities and allegedly wanted to end the 8-year war in Donbas (February 24, 2022)
2. He called the soldiers of the Azov regiment Nazis and accused the US of supplying weapons to Ukraine (March 26, 2022)
3. He stated that the Russian Federation was fighting in Ukraine against the Nazis (April 8, 2022)
Popov, in a comment to foreign television, said that Russia was fighting in Ukraine for the Russian language and Russian people and against “Nazis who kill and torture Russian soldiers.”
4. He admitted that Russia struck the port of Odesa and stated that the aggressor country could do it again (July 23, 2022)
5. He called a German military officer a Nazi (August 7, 2022)
Popov called a German war correspondent who was reporting from the front in Ukraine a Nazi on Russian television. When the German TV channel where the war correspondent works responded, propagandist Popov called the media workers “Aryan propagandists and warmongers.”
