On 1 April, the former Swiss intelligence officer Jacques Baud made startling revelations about the war in Ukraine. A large chunk of the Ukrainian armed forces were made up of a 102,000-strong paramilitary militia that included, he claimed, far-right militants, most of whom were foreign fighters.
The war, which the media claims began on 24 February, in fact started eight days before, with a Ukrainian attempt to invade the Russia-controlled Donbas region in the east of the country. This led to a “massacre of the Donbas population”, and included Polish saboteurs who were looking to carry out chemical attacks, forcing Vladimir Putin to respond.
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