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”.
During the interview, the Reform UK leader claimed Lord Robertson had agreed the war was caused by the expansion of the EU.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s World Tonight, the Labour peer denied saying it and described Mr Farage’s statement as “complete nonsense”.
“Saying that we provoked Russia is like saying that if you buy a burglar alarm, in some way you provoke burglars.”
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It followed the occupation of the Crimea and Donbas regions in 2014.
Ukraine is not a member of the EU or Nato, which is made up of 32 countries across Europe and North America.
However, the country applied to join both blocs following the Russian invasion.
Nato was formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the US, UK, Canada and France.
After the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, many Eastern European countries joined including Hungary, Poland and Estonia.
The EU has also expanded since the 1990s, with a number of eastern European countries joining in 2004.
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