Quote Originally Posted by Lither_1927 View Post
From what Ex U.N./Nato Jacques Baud said, Russia didn't arm the separatists, they accumulated their arms from mass Ukrainian army defections.

He also claims that Putin advised the separatists not to hold the referendum but they went ahead with it anyway. He's an expert in the region, worked for Nato and the U.N. He's Swiss, so neutral.

I'm dubious about anything the BBC and CNN report on Russian geo politics. CNN are generally awful with the propoganda they pump out about anything.

Do you have a link to the leaked phone call?
His country is neutral but it doesn't necessarily follow that his views are neutral.

This would be the same Jacques Baud who in *2020 went on Russian state TV to say there is “no history of poisoning by the Russian secret services”, that the Skripals simply had a bad case of “food poisoning” and that Alexei Navalny was poisoned not by the state but by some “mafia” people around him.

Yup, neutral...

* source: https://dailysceptic.org/archive/how...ar-in-ukraine/