In March 2022, in interviews with newspapers, Puchkov supported Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and repeated the main theses of Russian propaganda that the war was the result of the aggressive actions of Ukraine and NATO, and that Russia is only protecting its security. He continues to spread propaganda about the war in Ukraine in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda financed by the Russian Federation, and on various social networks.
Therefore, Dmitriy Puchkov is responsible for, supporting or implementing actions or policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
In 2014, Puchkov published the book ‘Ukraine is Russia’, in which he reproduced the main theses of propaganda that Ukraine is not an independent state.