West ‘provoked’ Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Nigel Farage claims
The IndependentSign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nigel Farage has claimed the West “provoked” Russia into its deadly invasion of Ukraine two years ago. The Reform UK leader said the European Union’s expansion as well as Nato had provided Vladimir Putin with an “excuse”. He added: “Very interestingly, once again, 10 years ago when I predicted this – by the way, I’m the only person in British politics that predicted what would happen, and of course everyone said I was a pariah for daring to suggest it.” He added: “I stood up in the European Parliament in 2014 and I said, and I quote, ‘there will be a war in Ukraine’. it was obvious to me that the ever-eastward expansion of Nato and the European Union was giving this man a reason to his Russian people to say ‘they’re coming for us again’, and to go to war.” Mr Farage pulled out of the same BBC interview last week as his Reform UK party faced a row over whether the UK should have appeased Hitler.
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