Good morning, and welcome to our continued coverage of the 2024 general election campaign. Nigel Farage, the Reform party leader, has been criticised for suggesting the west “provoked” Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by expanding the EU and Nato eastwards. He told Nick Robinson in the BBC Panorama interview that aired last night: I stood up in the European parliament in 2014 and I said – and I quote: ‘there will be a war in Ukraine’.
Why did I say that? It was obvious to me the ever eastward expansion of Nato and the EU was giving this man a reason to his Russian people to say they are coming for us again and to go to war. Robinson said that Farage was echoing Vladimir Putin’s narrative in justifying the war. Farage replied: Sorry I have been saying this actually since the 1990s – ever since the fall of the wall. Hang on a second: we provoked this war. Of course, it is his fault.
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