He’s also said:

West has also described Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “crime against humanity.”

“Russia has its own deep authoritarian and neofascist elites who are in control and concerned about the Russian empire being gloriously based on its past, Ukraine being a part of it, and Ukraine not existing,” he told U.S. magazine Jacobin in November 2022.

“This is the typical colonizing language that you get going back to the early moments of the age of Europe—the people are not there, the land is ours, etc.”

Leftists are anti-NATO that doesn’t mean they go and support another imperialist power (Tankies excluded, but they’re tankies so fuck em).