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As of December 2022, Rogozin had not been given a new job, though President Vladimir Putin's spokesman [[Dmitry Peskov]] told state news agency TASS in July 2022 that Rogozin would get a new job "in due time".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/15/the-art-of-russian-mumbling-grumbling-and-babbling-a78308|title=Russian Space Chief To Get New Job -. Kremlin|publisher=The Moscow Time |date=15 July 2022}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=March 2023}}
In the lack of an official position of power in Russia, Rogozin declared himself the head of the "[[Tsar's Wolves]]" inspection group of volunteers, with the stated aim of testing and supplying weapons for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.<ref name=ft1>{{Cite news |last=Ivanova |first=Polina |date=2023-06-16 |title=Russia's latest space agency mission: raising a militia for the war in Ukraine |work=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/c194cb2d-3aa0-4195-9be5-e78c1d2fd183 |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> By early December 2022, Rogozin had been posting images of himself dressed up as a soldier in expensive military gear on Telegram. [[Wagner Group|Wagner paramilitary group]] commander [[Yevgeny Prigozhin]] said that "the actions of Rogozin in Ukraine are clearly being done for the purposes of public relations rather than furthering the Russian war effort."<ref name=ars20221205>{{cite news |url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/dmitry-rogozin-may-be-in-some-trouble-in-russia/ |title=Dmitry Rogozin may be in some trouble in Russia |work=Ars Technica |date=5 December 2022 |access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>
On 21 December 2022, whilst celebrating his 59th birthday in a restaurant in [[Donetsk]], Rogozin and [[Vitaliy Khotsenko]], the chairman of the self-proclaimed separatist [[Donetsk People's Republic]], received shrapnel injuries from the explosion of a precision munition fired by Ukraine.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-Roscosmos head Rogozin, Donetsk proxy leader injured in possible targeted strike |url=https://kyivindependent.com/national/ex-roscosmos-head-dmitrii-rogozin-donetsk-proxy-leader-injured-in-possible-targeted-strike |work=[[Kyiv Independent]] |date=22 December 2022 |access-date=23 December 2022 }}</ref> Rogozin, over a Telegram chat room, claimed someone had leaked his coordinates or general location in Donetsk.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-22 |title=Russia's notorious former space chief Rogozin wounded in shelling |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-notorious-ex-space-chief-dmitry-rogozin-roscosmos-wounded-donbas-ukraine-shelling/ |access-date=2022-12-24 |website=Politico |language=en-US}}</ref>
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