Both the quotes of this, otherwise empty, article are reasonable and do not make him a Kremlin mouthpiece.

Stating that the west, and the US, has actively used Ukraine as a puppet in the geopolitical game is a fact.

It's also a fact that US troops and NATO forces have increasingly surrounded Russia since the 90s.

Mind you, I think that the NATO argument is bogus.

What happened in Ukraine was not a matter of Russian security, but Putin's own ambitions and paranoia against democratic waves in Belarus and Kazakhstan.