MOSCOW, September 23 Ex-head » Roscosmos», the head of the «Tsar's Wolves» division, Dmitry Rogozin, confirmed information in the media in his Telegram channel that he had become a senator from the Zaporozhye region.
““It is an honor for me to defend the interests of the Zaporozhye region and New Russia as a whole,” he wrote.
Rogozin is consistently involved in helping the military in the special operation zone and supporting new regions. The former general director of Roscosmos heads the group of military advisers «Tsar's Wolves», which provides military-technical assistance to units of the LPR and DPR.
Last year, the official, together with a group of military advisers, spent about three months in the DPR. At the end of December, the hotel in Donetsk where they lived came under fire from Ukrainian troops. Rogozin was wounded in the back. He was first evacuated to Rostov-on-Don, and then to Moscow, where he was successfully operated on. In February he returned to the combat zone.
Rogozin was a State Duma deputy from 1997 to 2007, from December 2003 to March 2004 he served as vice speaker of the lower house.
Since 2008 From 2011 to 2011, he was the permanent representative of Russia to NATO.
In 2011, Rogozin was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government, a position he held until 2018.
He headed Roscosmos in 2018-2022.