Elena Kolbasnikova, a native of Ukraine from Dnipro, is a pro-Putin activist. She has become known in Germany as the organizer of the so-called "pro-Russian motorcades" In May last year, she gave an interview to the television station »Bild TV« on the sidelines of a demonstration.
In doing so, she claimed: Russia is not an aggressor, but is helping to end the war in Ukraine. According to the court, it had approved crimes, namely the waging of a war of aggression.