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Farage doubles down on claim west provoked Ukraine invasion
Nigel Farage has doubled down on his claims that the west provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine, refusing to apologise and insisting he is not an “apologist or supporter of Putin”. The Reform UK leader had appeared on the BBC’s Panorama programme on …