The Reform UK leader sparked controversy after he said the West 'provoked' Putin to invade Ukraine.
Nigel Farage has hit back after Boris Johnson called him "morally repugnant" in response to comments he made about Russia's invasion ofThe Reform UK leader sparked controversy after he said in multiple media interviews that the West gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a reason to invade Ukraine.
Prior to that, on Friday Farage told the BBC’s The Panorama Interviews programme that “we provoked this war”, in reference to countries in eastern Europe signing up to Nato and the European Union, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.including former PM Boris Johnson, who wrote on X that Farage's comments amounted to "Kremlin propaganda.""The problem in the last 30 years has not been Western provocation but Western weakness in the face of Russian aggression.
“I would never, ever defend Putin and I think his behaviour in Ukraine and elsewhere has been reprehensible. The Reform UK leader went on: “There’s been precious little debate on defence, precious little debate about the state of our armed forces, precious little debate about how little we still do in this country for our veterans, and precious, precious almost no debate on foreign policy.”
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