Britain’s Nigel Farage says the West provoked Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, LONDON – Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s Reform UK party, said the eastern expansion of the European Union and NATO had provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The comments, made in an interview with the BBC broadcast late on Friday, sparked fierce criticism across the British political spectrum ahead of the July 4 election, in which Farage’s party is expected to win millions of votes.
Farage said he stood by comments made shortly after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when he posted on social media that the move was a “consequence of EU and NATO enlargement”.
