In May 2022, Sachs said that the
Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 would be hard to beat and that
Finland's moves to join
NATO would undermine a negotiated peace: "All of this talk of defeating Russia, to my mind, is reckless."
[69] In June 2022, he co-signed an open letter calling for a "ceasefire" in the war, questioning Western countries'
continuing military support for Ukraine.
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In 2022,
he appeared twice on one of the top-rated shows funded by the Russian government, hosted by
Vladimir Solovyov, to call for Ukraine to negotiate and step away from its "maximalist demands" of removing Russia from Ukrainian territory.
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Sachs has suggested that the U.S. was responsible for the
sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline. I
n February 2023, he was invited by the Russian government to address the
United Nations Security Council about the topic.
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