The Reform UK leader told the BBC that "of course" the war was President Vladimir Putin's fault.
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    Nigel Farage has said the West “provoked” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by expanding the European Union and Nato military alliance eastwards.

    In an interview with the BBC’s Nick Robinson, Mr Farage was challenged over his judgement and past statements, including when he named Russian President Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admired in 2014.

    “I said I disliked him as a person, but admired him as a political operator because he’s managed to take control of running Russia,” Mr Farage said.He was then pressed over a social media post in February 2022, when he claimed the Russian invasion of Ukraine was “a consequence of EU and Nato expansion”.

    Also responding to Mr Farage’s claim was former Nato Secretary General Lord George Robertson, who accused him of “parroting the Kremlin Line” and “producing new excuses for the brutal, unprovoked attack”.

    Net migration reached record levels in 2022 before reducing slightly the following year.Reform UK has said it backs a freeze on non-essential immigration to relieve pressure on housing and public services, increase wages and “protect our culture identity and values”.

    "He added: "We spend too much time hyperventilating about the problem rather than thinking practically and logically what we can do.”Mr Farage branded the Labour and Tory net zero policies “nonsense”, claiming £30bn a year could be saved by dropping their climate pledges.

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