The founder of PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin said that the son of the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov fought in Ukraine as part of the PMC Wagner. He announced this in an interview published on the Telegram channel of the military commander Alexander Simonov. According to Prigozhin, Peskov himself offered to send his son to the front.
“Of all my acquaintances, one person is Dmitry Sergeevich Peskov, who at one time was known as a complete liberal – his son, who lived part of his life in America, in my opinion, if I’m not mistaken, or in England … He came and said:“ Take him as a simple gunner “. By the way, it worked perfectly. A simple gunner, knee-deep in mud, shit, on the Hurricane. Few people know about it,” Prigozhin said. He did not specify the son's name.
Peskov's eldest son, Nikolai Choles, who lived in the UK for 10 years, returned to Russia in 2011-2012.
In September 2022, the host of the Popular Politics program, created by supporters of Alexei Navalny, Dmitry Nizovtsev, phoned Peskov's son live and, under the guise of a military commissar, announced that he had been sent a summons and now he should appear for a medical examination.
“You must understand, if you know that I am Mr. Peskov, how much it is not entirely correct for me to be there. In short, I will decide this at a different level, ”Peskov’s son answered then. He said that he was not going to come to the military registration and enlistment office.
Peskov Jr. also stated in this conversation that he should not be marked in the documents as a volunteer, he would do as Vladimir Vladimirovich told him.