i don't think it's very close. the video doesn't accurately reflect hitchens' trostkyist perspectives on the russia file. at all.
when there have been wars in ukraine in the last several decades, there's always been an alternative to the europeans and russians on the ground. ukraine has a peculiarly central position in the development of anarchism, which is probably due to the fact that it was a wasteland, free of direct control. ukrainians always had the idiosyncratic need to balance between the freedom of the steppe, and it's inherent tyranny, and the slave-reality of working people in settled eastern europe, with the security that slavery brings. anarchism could likely not have arisen anywhere else. ukrainian wars have always been multisided, with a dozen different flags pushing a dozen different ideologies.
what is weird about the current mess is that there is no alternative, as there always has been, you have to pick between one broken system and the other. it's an alternativeless thatcherian nightmare in a real sense; you can hear her banshee wails and tortured cries, screaming from the night sky no alternative!. i would expect hitchens to take a much more subtle position than this when faced with that truth.