Karina Bovsunovskaya22:03, 06/25/24

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The reformist candidate also called for peaceful negotiations between the parties to the conflict.

In the UK, reform candidate Julian Malins, who is running for Nigel Farage’s party in Salisbury, praised Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and denies comparing him to Nazi Adolf Hitler , writes The Telegraph .

The politician is known to have expressed this opinion in the city where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent in 2018.

Then the government of the country stated that there was a “high probability” that the Russian Federation was behind the poisoning, after which 23 Russian diplomats were expelled from the UK.

When Malins was asked about the reformers’ position on the conflict in Ukraine, he first praised Putin and said that the Russian dictator “seems very good.”

“We support diplomacy. We support every possible effort to reach compromise and resolve the problems in Ukraine. That’s what the adults in this room do. Stop the killing and negotiate a proper settlement. War is not about, so to speak, , punish or somehow run over thousands of young people with tanks and blow them up because one person has a point of view that you don’t agree with. I actually met Putin and had a 10 minute conversation with him and he seemed very… good. This is not the Austrian gentleman with a mustache (we are talking about Adolf Hitler) who came to life again,” the politician noted.

At the same time, such words caused a negative reaction from the general treasurer and Conservative candidate in Salisbury, John Glen. He recalled the “death and devastation” caused by the Salisbury attacks in 2018.

It is known that Skripal and his daughter died as a result of Novichok, but local resident Dawn Sturgess also became a victim, because she accidentally picked up a discarded bottle of a toxic substance.

“Having seen Putin personally order the Novichok attack on Salisbury, and the death and destruction it caused in our city, I know that the majority of people living here do not agree with the Reform candidate.” Putin represents a danger to the West, and we must confront it, not appease it,” Glen stressed.

Nigel Farage’s scandalous statement about the war in Ukraine

Earlier, the leader of British reformers, Nigel Farage, said that the West “provoked” the Russian Federation into a war in Ukraine . He said the “steady eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union” gave Russian dictator Vladimir Putin a reason to justify the war.

At the same time, the UK Ministry of Defense responded to the scandalous statement of the Brexit ideologist . The agency published a video debunking the “myth” that “NATO is aggressive and is an enemy of Russia.”

(C)UNIAN 2024