[4] From 2010 to 2012, Peskov was in the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces and participated in the 2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade.
"[6] In April 2023, it was reported that Nikolay had joined the Wagner Group and is participating in the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an artillery man,[7] a conflicting report shows that when he claimed to be in Ukraine his Tesla car, which he is the primary driver of, had been seen moving "actively" around Moscow.
Nikolai Peskov also claimed that he wanted to join Wagner but didn't know how "so I had to turn to my dad...and he helped me with that".
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said that Dmitry Peskov asked him to "take [Nikolai] on as a simple artilleryman".
[10] Peskov spent time in a British young offender institution for stealing a mobile phone and took courses for alcohol abuse and anger management.
[11] This was after a 2010 incident when Peskov and two other men "(punched) a teenager in the face during a mobile phone theft"[4][11] outside a McDonald's in Milton Keynes.