Famous Russian milblogger and propagandist injured in Russia’s Kursk Oblast – media

Poddubny at the Hostomel airbase. Photo: Russian media

Mikhail Delyagin, a member of the State Duma of Russia, as well as several Russian propagandistic channels, have reported about the death of Yevgeny Poddubny, one of the most popular military bloggers in Russia and employee of the All-Russian State TV and Radio Company. Later, Kremlin-aligned news agency RIA Novosti reported that the milblogger had been injured. 

Source: Russian opposition media outlet The Insider; Kremlin-aligned news agency RIA Novosti

Details: Early reports say that on the afternoon of 7 August, Poddubny was filming reportage in Kursk Oblast about the fighting in the Sudzha district, which had allegedly been infiltrated by Ukrainian forces.
Updated: Later, RIA Novosti reported that Poddubny had been injured as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack in Kursk Oblast and was taken to local hospital. 

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Reference from The Insider: Yevgeny Poddubny is one of the most famous Russian military bloggers. He is also an employee of the All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and works as a military correspondent of the Rossiya-1 TV channel.

Poddubny is famous for his overly optimistic reports on how Russia gradually occupies more and more Ukrainian territories. Usually, this information later turns out to be false.

In particular, he filmed footage at the Hostomel airbase in Kyiv Oblast in the first days of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Background: 

• On the morning of 6 August, Alexei Smirnov, the acting governor of Russia’s Kursk Oblast, claimed that Ukrainian forces had mounted an attempt to infiltrate the Sudzha and Korenevo districts of Kursk Oblast. At the same time, Russian social media began to spread information about fighting in the border areas of Kursk Oblast and that Ukrainian troops were advancing in the Sudzha district of the Russian Federation with equipment.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence later reported that Russian reserve troops had been deployed on the Russian-Ukrainian border in Kursk Oblast.
• Russian propagandists and milbloggers are claiming that Ukrainian forces secured a foothold in the border area. 
• A state of emergency had been declared on the second day of the breakthrough on the border in Kursk Oblast, Russia.

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