The former prime minister lashed out at the Reform UK leader after he doubled down on his comments that the West was to blame for provoking Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Boris Johnson last night accused Nigel Farage of being 'morally repugnant' for 'parroting Putin's lies' about Ukraine .
A spokesman for Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov also seized on Mr Farage's comments. Asked if the Kremlin considered the Clacton-on-Sea candidate 'an ally', Maria Zakharova suggested it did, saying: 'How you see the person who tells people that two plus two is four or reminds you of the exact time?'
In an article for the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Farage wrote: 'His invasion of Ukraine was immoral, outrageous and indefensible. As a champion of national sovereignty, I believe that Putin was entirely wrong to invade the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Nobody can fairly accuse me of being an appeaser. I have never sought to justify Putin's invasion in any way and I'm not now.
'The people of Ukraine voted overwhelmingly in 1991 to be a sovereign and independent country. They were perfectly entitled to seek both Nato and EU membership. Vladimir Putin's propaganda machine praised Mr Farage for showing 'enlightenment and sanity'. Pictured: Putin takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE Nigel Farage says a Labour Party 'will be the most incompetent we've ever seen' In an earlier bulletin on the same 1TV channel, Anylona Lapshina suggested Mr Farage's views represented public disenchantment with support for Kyiv, adding: 'More and more European politicians are showing enlightenment and sanity.
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