[1] He was born in Belgorod, and received a master's degree in psychology and has worked as a war correspondent for Russian state television.

He has repeatedly worked in the Russian-occupied territories of Georgia and Ukraine, where he justified war crimes and Russian aggression against those countries.

[1] From early 2014, Evgeny Poddubny, as a special correspondent for the Russia-24 TV channel, has covered the Revolution of Dignity, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and the Russo-Ukrainian War.

[7] On February 23, 2018, Poddubny and war correspondent Alexander Sladkov performed a song together with Joseph Kobzon at a holiday concert in the Kremlin dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Red Army and Defender of the Fatherland Day.

[10] In June 2013, Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan accused the Russia-1 and Russia-24 TV channels and Poddubny himself of violating elementary standards of journalistic ethics for his report "Syrian Jihad Turns the Opposition into Radicals."

[11] On September 12, 2013, the Russia-24 TV channel aired an exclusive interview with the President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad, which the head of state gave to Evgeniy Poddubny.

However, investigative journalists from The New York Times and Bellingcat found that the Syrian military most likely carried out the chemical attack, dropping a cylinder of chlorine gas from a helicopter.

[14] In April 2021, at the monthly UN Security Council meeting on chemical weapons in Syria, U.S. representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield stressed that Russia was obstructing efforts to hold the Syrian government accountable.