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= Steshin Dmitry Anatolievich = Dmitry Steshin (born 12 September 1972) is a russian journalist, editor, propagandist and nationalist. He is working mostly for "Komsomolskaya Pravda" tabloid newspaper and for his own channel in Telegram.

Biography
Born September 12, 1972 in Leningrad. Graduated from the North-West Academy of Public Administration.

He began his career in the newspaper "Five Corners". Then he worked as an editor of the "Kaleidoscope magazine", in which he has been publishing since 1994. He began working at "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in May 2000. In 2001-2003 he was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in St. Petersburg. According to his own words, he came to military journalism, following the example of his colleagues who covered the first and second Chechen wars[2]. Since 2004, he started to work in the main office of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in Moscow, where he became friends with journalist Alexander Kots, with whom he began to work together.

Dmitry Steshin covered the revolutions in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Moldova. He worked on expeditions in the Far North - Franz Josef Land, Severnaya Zemlya, Middendorf Land and the North Pole. Together with Alexander Kots, he prepared material for the 20th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Since the spring of 2011, Dmitry Steshin worked in Egypt, Tunisia, and then in Libya. During the Arab Spring, in April 2011, he was captured while covering the war in Libya, together with his colleague Alexander Kots and three journalists from the Russian NTV channel. The reporters were accused of being intelligence agents working for Muammar Gaddafi's regime. All reporters were released with the help of the Italian military stationed at the Benghazi airfield.

In 2016 he has worked in Syria. In April 2016 he was awarded by Russian Minister of defense with Medal of Participant of military operation in Syria.

Work in Ukraine
Steshin covered the annexation of Crimea, later in 2014 he was awarded for that with a medal "For the Return of Crimea". Since the beginning of Russian invasion to Ukraine, Steshin is covering the war, mostly on the Donbas. From December 2013 to May 2014, Dmitry Steshin, together with Alexander Kots, worked in Slovyansk.

In his articles Steshin often used biased and unconfirmed information. Commenting on January 2015 Mariupol rocket attack he has blaimed Ukrainian side without any evidences, claimed that this is just an another provocation like the MH17 tragedy.

Since the full-scale Russian invasion he was actively involved in media coverage of the ongoing battles in Ukraine, again with biased one-sided information. Steshin posted a fake report from the Kramatorsk railway station after it was struck by a Russian missile, killing 57. He falsely claimed the station was filled with Ukrainian militants, not civilians, writing on Telegram: “Ten minutes ago this happened at the Kramatorsk railway station. A group of militants of the armed forces of Ukraine was working here.” The post was later deleted, but not before it had been preserved for posterity by re-posts and screenshots.

In his posts in Telegram often uses hate speech against Europeans, US and Ukrainians, also there are calls for genocide of Ukrainian people.

Most time wear military uniform and carry gun, which violate the Law of war and Geneva convention.

The Security Service of Ukraine banned Steshin from entering the territory of the country Ukraine “due to violation of the law on the status of foreigners and stateless persons”. In May 2022 he was sanctioned by Great Britain and later by Australia.