Patrick Lancaster

2014–2021

Lancaster arrived in Ukraine in March 2014 to cover the aftermath of the Maidan revolution, settling in Donetsk later that year.^[5] From 2015 on, Lancaster has primarily created videos for his own YouTube channel.^[11]

MH17

Lancaster has produced videos in which he describes finding skeletal remains from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and has claimed the flight was shot down by Ukrainian forces.^{[12][13][14][5]} MH17 victims' families have criticized Lancaster's lack of regard for their loved ones' remains, and Dutch media has accused him of exploiting the tragedy.^{[15][16][17][verify paraphrase]}

Russo-Ukrainian war

Lancaster has vlogged mostly from Russian-controlled territories of Ukraine since 2022, in the early days of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Vice Media and NBC News described him as the most popular of the pro-Kremlin influencers spreading Russian propaganda and disinformation on YouTube.^[11] Investigative journalism agency Bellingcat has reported that Lancaster's videos have exposed a staged Russian IED attack, and revealed the identity of a Russian perpetrator of a war crime.^[3][4] In 2024, Lancaster's videos from Russia's Kursk region in the context of Ukraine's Kursk campaign showed local residents speaking positively about the Ukrainian army.^[18]

In late April 2025, Lancaster gave an interview to Tucker Carlson where he dismissed claims of North Korean troops in Russia, stating that he had not found them "not for the lack of trying".^{[19][non-primary source needed]} In September 2025, the ruling pro-Russian party in Georgia banned Lancaster from entering the country.^[20]