Foreign propagandists of the Russian Federation regime

In October 2022, he published a survey in TW about his own "peace plan" for Ukraine. The plan included the neutrality of Ukraine, the inclusion of Crimea in the russian federation, the provision of its water supply, and repeated referendums under the supervision of the UN in the regions of Ukraine annexed by the russian federation. In addition, he called the transfer of Crimea to the Ukrainian SSR as "a mistake of Khrushchev". In subsequent posts, he also frightened subscribers with russian mobilization, the death of millions of people, and called Ukraine's victory as "unlikely." According to American political scientist Ian Bremmer, Musk had a personal conversation with putin before the publication of this "peace plan". In February 2023, he reposted an article dated 2014, which claimed that the "illegal overthrow of Ukraine's democratically elected and pro-russian president" was the "last straw" for putin, after which he annexed Crimea. In the comments, Musk wrote: "no question that there was indeed a coup." In 2001-2022, he traveled to Moscow to purchase refurbished intercontinental ballistic missiles for their further use as launch vehicles.

Since 2014, he spoke out against the sanctions imposed on the russian federation and in favor of their cancellation, justifying this by the conjecture that "EU sanctions increased gas prices and inflation." In February 2022, he declared the failure of the West's strategy to support Ukraine, the impossibility of Ukraine's victory in the war, and the only possibility of ending the war - through direct negotiations between the USA and russia. In November 2022, during a friendly match of the national football team, he wore a scarf with the image of the map of "Greater Hungary", with parts of Ukraine and other neighboring states in it. In January 2023, at a meeting with journalists, he said: "The West must understand that putin cannot afford to lose the war and will not lose it." At the same time, he claimed that "russia's goal is to turn Ukraine into an ungovernable ruin so that the West cannot claim it as a prize", called Ukraine as a "no man's land" and warned that if Ukrainians cross the russian border with Western weapons, "the future will be so bright that the West will have to wear sunglasses." In the same month, during a festive dinner in honor of the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, he said that "russians" live to the east of Hungary.

In January 2022, he planned to visit russia, which he wanted to make his "second home," and meet with putin. In December 2022, he said on the air that he was "very pro-putin, very pro-russian", at the same time he admitted that he liked Hitler and called himself a Nazi. As a child, he lived in China, where his mother worked on an exchange program. As of January 2022, he was negotiating joint projects with the russian developer and state contractor Aras Agalarov.

In this video he complains how it’s acceptable to help Ukraine and asks why it’s unacceptable to help Russia: https://youtube.com/shorts/37y9z-llRYM?si=9mqv-qiSI-7bVgX0 Kremlin memos urged Russian media to use Tucker Carlson clips: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/14/kremlin-memos-russian-media-tucker-carlson-fox-news-mother-jones

In August 2014, he co-authored a letter to top managers of British companies, in which he expressed disagreement with the introduction of sanctions against the Russian Federation. In November 2017, he illegally visited Crimea, where he took part in the conference "Crimea in the modern international context", after which he declared: "Crimea has always been Russian, remains so and has a Russian perspective." In March 2022, the International Association of Friends of Crimea, of which Bonar is a member, issued a statement supporting a full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, calling for the "liquidation of the cell of neo-Nazism on the territory of Ukraine."

After the Euromaidan, he took the position of not recognizing the new Ukrainian government as legitimate. Since the emergence of separatist organizations in the east of Ukraine, he spent a lot of time in the TOT, visited Crimea, where he contacted separatist leaders and received awards from them. He believes that Ukraine is ruled by fascists, nationalists and the "junta". He considers Putin a powerful politician who acts in the interests of his country, and Zelenskiy a "pathetic fool." It also claims that the Malaysian Boeing was shot down by Ukrainian fighter jets. Since the beginning of the armed aggression against Ukraine, he has been voicing Russian propaganda theses. He does not recognize the involvement of the Russian military in the atrocities in Bucha, considers it a fake and staged. His publications and reports are reproduced by Russian propaganda media.

The author of the film about the tragedy at the House of Trade Unions in Odesa in May 2014, in which he accuses the Ukrainian authorities of a planned mass murder. He believes that Russophobic attitudes and anti-Russian propaganda will prevail in Germany in 2022, and is outraged by posters in support of Ukraine. After the start of the armed aggression, the Russian Federation illegally visited territories not controlled by Ukraine. He also believes that the Ukrainian military commits atrocities against the civilian population.

He claims that Ukrainians torture and kill Russian prisoners of war, while residents of the occupied territories welcome Russian soldiers. Also, according to his "investigation", it was the Ukrainian armed forces that blew up the drama theater in Mariupol and carried out airstrikes on the hospital in Volnovakha. The author of the book with quotes from Vladimir Putin.

She claims that Germany is completely dependent on the USA in its actions and decisions, anti-Russian sanctions cause more damage to the Germans than the Russian Federation, the winter in Germany will be cold and hungry. He claims that the fighters of Azov are Nazis, and journalists who deviate from the rhetoric of the authorities are persecuted and repressed. He also claims that there is much more freedom in the Russian Federation than in Europe, and the armed forces carry out constant attacks on civilians, maternity homes and blow up granaries.

Articles and statements of Schiltz are often reprinted by Russian propaganda media. He believes that the Russian Federation supports many more countries in its actions than the USA and the EU expected, sanctions against the Russian Federation do not work, they harm and divide Europe, and the Ukrainian authorities are driven to despair. He also notes that the status of a candidate for EU membership is fictitious, it was specially created for Ukraine and several other countries that will never join it, as they will not be able to fulfill and adhere to the specified conditions. Before the start of the military aggression against Ukraine, he wrote that the Russian Federation will completely outplay NATO, whose strategies are outdated, and the build-up of the alliance's forces near the borders of Ukraine increases the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis.

In 1984, she founded the Schiller Institute. She stated that "the problem of the war in Ukraine lies in the fact that "Germany and the EU have taken a course towards NATO, the USA and Britain and are in a confrontation with Russia".

He claims that after the beginning of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, SSU employees detain and brutally torture Ukrainian citizens for communicating in Russian. Considers Viktor Medvedchuk a representative of the ethnic Russian population of Ukraine, against whom repression was applied.

It is systematically published in Russian propaganda publications. He claims that the tragedy in Bucha is staged, that the Ukrainian population supports the Russian army, that Ukraine faces an inevitable armed defeat and the escape or assassination of its leaders. He also opposes the sending of American weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the allocation of financial aid from the United States; claims that NATO bases are located in Ukraine. He was convicted and served a sentence in the USA for pedophilia.

He believes that neo-Nazism and nationalism reign in Ukraine, and the American government supports these phenomena. The author interviewed Aiden Aslin, a British prisoner of war who fought on the side of Ukraine. Claimed that Ukrainian troops were being covered by civilians as human shields, and also disseminated information about the connection between American biological laboratories located on the territory of Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic. Russian mass media used him several times as a "foreign journalist" in propaganda reports, in particular during a trip to the Kakhovskaya HPP.

Engaged in propaganda in favor of the "Donetsk People's Republic". He considers the current policy of the USA to be fascism. Led a video blog on YT, blocked for 2022. Participates in the plots of other pro-Russian propagandists and is the hero of reports and articles. According to him, the Ukrainian government is Nazi, the Armed Forces of Ukraine commit particularly cruel atrocities against the civilian population of Donbas, and thousands of ISIS fighters from Syria are among the Ukrainians. Raised $100k for victims of "shelling by the Ukrainian military". He came to TOT in 2014 after he was found guilty in the USA of drug trafficking, smuggling and participation in an international criminal group and had to serve a prison term.

Since 2015, he actively defended the foreign policy of the Russian Federation in social networks, repeatedly expressed his pro-Russian position and love for the Russian media holding RT, criticized the United States for recognizing RT as a foreign agent. After the invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, he actively spread fake articles and posts in TW, 55% of which were recognized as fake, and 24% aimed at inciting hatred towards Ukraine. Mach's main theses are identical to those of the Russian Federation: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy uses the war to destroy the opposition and is a puppet of the West; The SSU acts on the instructions of the CIA, MI-5 and European countries; The US and NATO are sponsoring the war in Ukraine; the government in Ukraine is connected with neo-Nazis; neo-Nazis of the "Azov" battalion and the ZSU mock civilians; "ethnic cleansing" is taking place in Ukraine; the Ukrainian government supports the murders of officials who cooperated with the Russian Federation.

In 2005, he was exposed in the USA for writing 10 commissioned lobbying articles, and later admitted to this. For many years, he has maintained a position of "non-interference" with regard to US foreign policy, and is categorically against the expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe. He considers the USA to be guilty of starting the war in Ukraine, and their position of supporting Ukraine against the Russian Federation a big mistake, which could lead to the disintegration of the country. Claims that America needs to negotiate with the Russian Federation; Ukraine must be sacrificed for the sake of world peace and nuclear security. He opposes the provision of arms to Ukraine, as well as the transfer to it of seized assets of the Russian Federation abroad. He considers the sanctions against the Russian Federation to be ineffective and such that they could lead to the economic division of Europe. Bandow materials are often printed by Russian propaganda media.

He believes that the Russian Federation cannot be defeated, sanctions against it are ineffective, and the only compromise option that will lead to the end of the war in Ukraine is the holding of referendums in non-controlled territories. He also believes that it is necessary to give Vladimir Putin a "small victory" so that he can save his face.

He stated that "the main cause of the current crisis in Ukraine is the process of NATO's expansion to the East." He also claimed that he believes "in the possibility of a quick and successful conclusion of peace negotiations and the lifting of sanctions against Russia."

In 2021, he stated that "sanctions against the Russian Federation are not working," and continued to assert this in 2022. In 2022, he said that "the USA, through NATO, provoked the Russian Federation into a war in Ukraine."