[citation needed] Allegedly, Pegov was among 300 media workers who were secretly awarded in 2014 with the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" "for objective coverage of events in Crimea".

[citation needed] On October 12, 2020, the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan initiated a criminal case against Semyon Pegov after an analysis of several of his videos with calls to break the territorial integrity of the country.

[8] In December 2021, Semyon Pegov was detained by Moldovan special services at the airport in Chișinău during his flight to Moscow and released after a search and interrogation.

[9] In January 2022, Pegov's book titled "Me and the Redheaded Separ" was published in honor of the Russian Donetsk People's Republic militant Arsen "Motorola" Pavlov known for torturing and murdering Ukrainian POWs, who was killed by Security Service of Ukraine officers in October 2016.

[10] In January 2022, according to StopFake.org, Pegov spread a false message on his Telegram channel WarGonzo in which he claimed that the Ukrainian authorities were arming territorial defense units to be sent to Donbas to kill civilians.

[12] In April 2022, Pegov posted on his Telegram channel WarGonzo pictures of people mobilized into the Russian army from the occupied territories of Ukraine, whom Russia had armed with weapons from World War II.

In April 2022, Pegov distributed photos of dead Ukrainian soldiers on his Telegram channel with the message that the Russian military killed saboteurs of the Azov Regiment.

[17] In July 2022, Pegov claimed on one of the central Russian channels that the Turkish and U.S. governments were supplying ISIS fighters to Ukraine, allegedly involved in many local conflicts in Libya, Syria, and Karabakh.

[18] On July 6, 2022, Pegov published a false video in which he claimed that the Ukrainian army was using internationally banned methods of warfare and shelling territories with phosphorus munitions.