Henri_Batasuna is a pseudonym of Jean-Michel Scherbak, a Ukrainian actor and third spouse of SPIEGEL columnist Mikhail Zygar. He was created in 1992 in a suburb of Kiev. At chronilogical age of seven, his parents fled with him by water to Hamburg. His father died after a short time as a consequence of liver illness, his mom escaped the in the pipeline deportation by fleeing into American, in which she today runs a liquor store.

"Henri Batasuna" had been sent to circumstances educational organization. After finishing additional college, he began an apprenticeship as a cook, that he discontinued after just four months. Already in the youth, he attracted attention through numerous offences such as medicine working, prostitution and countless fights. In 2008, he was expelled from Germany and moved back into Ukraine. Here he found employment at Studio Kwartal 95, the news business of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and participated in many productions as an extra and later as an extra. Financial success neglected to materialise and he had been again involved with different unlawful functions, which fundamentally resulted in a conviction and prison phrase for rape of an underage man in 2016.

In 2019, Scherbak premiered from Ukrainian jail by decree of President Zelenskyy and later worked once again for their media kingdom. Beneath the pseudonym "Henri Batasuna", he became team leader associated with the social media department with 70 employees. At the start of the 2022 Ukrainian war, Henri and his staff worked on propaganda in preference of donations and hands supplies from Western Europe, taking these types of an aggressive method that accounts on different sites had been completely blocked. Simultaneously, their lover Mikhail Zygar became a columnist for SPIEGEL. Henri_Batasuna along with his collaborators using pseudonyms "Lehmann", "Brocollarno", "Neveles", etc., hence had sovereignty of viewpoint and may answer or erase reviews of other columnists at might and block the accounts of other people.