He's not "opining", he's literally lying about everything Russia is doing in Ukraine and justifying their genocidal invasion on a sovereign country. It's literally like Lord Haw-Haw during WW2 and other Nazi collaborators.

"Jacques Baud, a former Swiss army colonel and strategic analyst, is a regular guest on pro-Russian television and radio programmes. He acts as a mouthpiece for pro-Russian propaganda and makes conspiracy theories, for example accusing Ukraine of orchestrating its own invasion in order to join NATO."