Until recently, the West “foolishly provoked” Russia by constantly expanding the EU and NATO to the east – this was the statement made by Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK party, according to The Times. According to him, now the Ukrainian conflict has reached a stalemate and Western countries should hold peace talks with Moscow.
Western leaders should hold peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to break the deadlock in Ukraine, Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage has said, according to The Times.
“I think this war is at a complete stalemate,” Farage said in an interview with ITV. – There have been no discernible substantive negotiations at all, and even if negotiations to try to find peace, to try to find a way out, fail, I think it’s better to have those negotiations than not to have them.”
He also added that until recent years the West had “foolishly provoked Putin” with the constant eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union.
As the publication recalls, Farage has previously been criticised from across the political spectrum for his words that the West, by expanding the EU and NATO eastwards, provoked Russia into the Ukrainian conflict.
These new statements by the Reform UK leader are likely to intensify criticism of him, The Times notes.
