In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, published on May 26, the 100-year-old Henry Kissinger pontificated in his notoriously evil fashion. Two separate TASS wires reporting on that interview capture the point.
“Ukrainian Conflict Triggered by Aspiration To Bring It to NATO—Kissinger,” is the first, which then quotes him saying: “I think the offer to put Ukraine into NATO was a grave mistake and led to this war.”