If true, terrible. Especially since Putin made such a great big deal out of Westphalian notions of sovereignty.
However, how on God’s green Earth can the Ukrainian security services confirm this document? Massive, massive obvious bias aside[1], I thought that the ‘confirmation’ thing is when the originating government admits that they are genuine. That’s how Boing Boing has used the term before.
[1] Imagine GRU authenticating leaked White House memos. People’d scoff so hard there might be injuries.
So stating widely known facts makes you a nazi now? Hows the weather in Moscow?
This marks the first time I’ve ever seen the ‘shill’ accusation have any merit whatsoever.