In the summer of 2022, Seagal visited the occupied Donbas region. These interventions were met with derision in Kyiv, which mocked Seagal’s distinctive martial arts technique.

An actual tweet from Ukraine’s Defense Ministry: “It’s been reported that russia has recruited Steven Seagal to teach martial arts to its soldiers,” the ministry tweeted.

Seagal, appointed chief instructor of the Russian Aikido Federation in 2018, told the audience watching an aikido demonstration that martial arts could help “make the world a better place” and ...

Ukraine is mocking Russia over reports that Steven Seagal's new Moscow martial arts center will train Russian military recruits in aikido. The U.S.-born actor, who has a cozy relationship with ...

Martial arts performer Steven Seagal may face sanctions from the European Union after attending Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration in Moscow. The “Above the Law” actor, who has ...

Back in the late 1980s and throughout the '90s, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme were two of the most in-demand action stars in Hollywood. The two actors and martial arts experts became ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin honored martial arts star Steven Seagal with the Order of Friendship recognition. The decree credited the “On Deadly Ground” actor, who holds Russian an… ...

U.S.-born actor Steven Seagal is promoting the teaching of hand-to-hand combat to new Russian military recruits heading to the war in Ukraine.

There's a burning question that keeps coming up in internet communities, YouTube explainers, and interviews with stunt people from the film industry: does Steven Seagal actually know martial arts?