The current leader of Reform UK is a notorious admirer of the international criminal President Putin.
Per the BBC:
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.
He later made the inexcusable claim that the EU and NATO provoked Putin into his illegal war on Ukraine.
From the same BBC article linked above:
Mr Farage said he had been arguing since the 1990s that “the ever eastward expansion” of the Nato military alliance and the EU was giving President Putin “a reason to [give to] his Russian people to say they’re coming for us again and to go to war”.
He added: “We provoked this war…”
His political colleagues from other sides of the aisle disagree. Former Conservative Defence Secretary Ben Wallace sums it up well:
Mr Wallace – who oversaw the UK’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 – said Mr Farage “is a bit like that pub bore we’ve all met at the end of the bar” and often presents “very simplistic answers” to complex problems.
He also said the Reform UK leader had been “consistently wrong” on the issue, adding: “Putin isn’t really invading Ukraine because of Nato expansion.”
Nonetheless, Farage’s incessant grifter side was happy to personally take money in order to appear on Russian Kremlin propaganda TV channel RT, formerly known as Russia Today. A claim he was paid half a million was likely incorrect, but no-one denies he made at least a few thousands pounds profit from appearing on a channel funded and controlled by the Russian state.