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September 24, 2025
William Upton
UK

Boris Johnson Peddles New Russian Hoax Against Nigel Farage.

PULSE POINTS

âť“WHAT HAPPENED: Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pushing a new Russia hoax smear against Reform Party leader Nigel Farage. Johnson, speaking with journalist Harry Cole, called Farage “extremely dangerous” regarding policy toward Russia and said he has “serious anxieties” on Reform’s position on Ukraine.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, the Conservatives (Tories), the Reform Party, Russia, Ukraine, and the Azov Brigade.

đź“ŤWHEN & WHERE: Johnson’s remarks came in an interview previewed on September 24, 2025.

đź’¬KEY QUOTE: Johnson claimed Farage is “extremely dangerous” regarding policy toward Russia and said he has “serious anxieties” on Reform’s position on Ukraine.

🎯IMPACT: Johnson has long acted as a lobbyist for the Ukrainian government, pushing Western leaders to escalate their participation in the country’s conflict with Russia. This includes pushing the former Biden government to provide military aid to the Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade.

IN FULL

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pushing a new Russia hoax smear against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Johnson, speaking with journalist Harry Cole, called Farage “extremely dangerous” regarding policy toward Russia and said he has “serious anxieties” on Reform’s position on Ukraine. The former Prime Minister went on to insinuate that Farage—whose Reform Party now leads both the ruling Labour Party and Johnson’s formerly governing Conservatives (Tories) in most election polls—is a threat to British national security.

While insisting the Conservatives are the only party with serious solutions, Johnson suggested Farage’s stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine poses a national security threat. However, the former Prime Minister, when pressed further by Cole, waffled and attempted to walk back the insinuation.


Notably, Johnson has long acted as a lobbyist for the Ukrainian government, pushing Western leaders to escalate their participation in the country’s conflict with Russia. Just weeks after the 2024 election, the former Prime Minister was pushing NATO to deploy combat troops in Ukraine, a move that would almost certainly result in a broader conflict between Russia and the West. Additionally, Johnson may have played an integral role in the original Russia collusion hoax, allegedly having authorized the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to spy on President Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign when he was Foreign Secretary.

The National Pulse reported last year that evidence suggests Johnson had a hand in former U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to lift restrictions on arming Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade. Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse, said at the time, “The Azov Battalion… has absolute direct links to Neo-Nazism; this is not something that is disputed… What they say is that they have undertaken a PR operation to change their image and to try and put a lot of those things in the past… and, of course, one of their biggest lobbyists in the world at the moment, as we reported just a couple of weeks ago, is former British prime minister Boris Johnson, a lobbyist for Neo-Nazis.”

Not only did Johnson push for the normalization of and military aid for the Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade, he was also instrumental in scuttling peace talks in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Kassam reported in 2022 that Boris Johnson’s April 9, 2022, trip to Ukraine—which resulted in the UK pledging 120 new armored vehicles alongside anti-ship missile systems—led to a collapse in peace negotiations.

In February 2024, this detail was publicy confirmed by Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview with Tucker Carlson. The Russian president alleged that Johnson dissuaded Davyd Arakhamia, leader of Ukraine’s ruling party, from signing the peace accord. Putin suggested the preliminary agreement had been reached in Istanbul after direct negotiations with Ukrainian officials.

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September 17, 2024
Christopher Tomlinson
Crime
Election 2024
World

The Failed Trump Assassin Appeared in a Ukrainian ‘Azov’ Video – Now They’re Trying to Distance Themselves.

The overtly neo-Nazi Azov Brigade has issued a statement denying any links to Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. However, Azov admits Routh attended one of their events in Ukraine.

The group released a statement on X (formerly Twitter) admitting that Routh appeared in a 2022 video at a protest in support of Azov forces, who were fighting in the city of Mariupol at the time.

“We would like to officially state that Ryan Wesley Routh has no connection to Azov and has never had any connection to Azov. The peaceful demonstration he attended was open and anyone could join it. He was caught on the video filmed by the protesters by accident,” Azov writes.

They add that any suggestion that Routh has a connection to their brigade or the Ukrainian armed forces is “Russian propaganda.”

However, both Routh’s social media and mainstream media reports show he was trying to recruit foreign fighters for the Ukrainian armed forces, mainly focusing on Afghans fleeing the Taliban.

A truck parked outside Routh’s home has been pictured sporting a large Biden-Harris bumper sticker. He has also made at least 19 donations to the Democrats through ActBlue and posed for a picture with major Democratic donor JosĂ© AndrĂ©s.

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The overtly neo-Nazi Azov Brigade has issued a statement denying any links to Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. However, Azov admits Routh attended one of their events in Ukraine. show more
June 12, 2024
Jack Montgomery
UK
War

WATCH: Boris Johnson Is Azov Neo-Nazis’ Biggest Lobbyist, and Biden Is Listening to Him.

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson had a hand in Joe Biden’s decision to lift restrictions on arming Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Avov Brigade, believes Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse. Speaking to War Room host Stephen K. Bannon,

“The Azov Battalion… has absolute direct links to Neo-Nazism; this is not something that is disputed,” Kassam said of the group, which fights under the wolf’s hook emblem formerly used by Adolf Hitler’s Das Reich Waffen-SS division and was founded by an ultra-nationalist who preaches a “final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhumans].”

“This is not something that even they dispute. What they say is that they have undertaken a PR operation to change their image and to try and put a lot of those things in the past,” Kassam explained.

“They’ve not, by the way, said, ‘Oh, and we and we divest of that, and we repudiate all of that…’ They say, ‘We’re trying to soften our image’— and, of course, one of their biggest lobbyists in the world at the moment, as we reported just a couple of weeks ago, is former British prime minister Boris Johnson, a lobbyist for Neo-Nazis,” he continued.

“And it looks like the efforts of his lobbying have been targeted at Joe Biden at the U.S. State Department and beyond, and been successful.”

ROOTS. 

Azov sees themselves as the heirs of Stepan Bandera, a 20th-century Ukrainian nationalist and independence fighter widely revered nationwide.

Modern-day Ukraine did not exist as a state until 1991, being a Soviet Socialist Republic during the Second World War. Part of its current territory belonged to Poland, and Bandera was involved in a series of political murders in that country as he sought independence. Many of his fighters and supporters welcomed and collaborated with the German Nazis when they invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and embarked on a campaign of genocide against ethnic Poles in what is not western Ukraine.

However, Adolf Hitler planned to colonize Ukraine rather than grant it independence and had Bandera interned. He hid from the Soviets in West Germany until he was assassinated by the KGB in 1959.

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Former British prime minister Boris Johnson had a hand in Joe Biden's decision to lift restrictions on arming Ukraine's Neo-Nazi Avov Brigade, believes Raheem Kassam, Editor-in-Chief of The National Pulse. Speaking to War Room host Stephen K. Bannon, show more
June 11, 2024
Jack Montgomery
War

Biden Approves Arms for Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.

Joe Biden has lifted restrictions on arming the Azov Battalion, a Neo-Nazi Ukrainian military formation founded by a politician who believes it is the Ukrainian nation’s mission to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhumans]”.

“This is a new page in our unit’s history,” Azov bragged in a statement on the policy change. “Azov is becoming even more powerful, even more professional and even more dangerous for occupiers,” they boasted.

“Obtaining Western weapons and training from the United States will not only increase the combat ability of Azov, but most importantly, contribute to the preservation of the lives and the health of personnel.”

Azov founder Andriy Biletsky, who also leads the National Corps political party, has described his ideology as “Ukrainian racial social-nationalism.” However, he has minimized this rhetoric since the Euromaidan coup and the subsequent onset of hostilities with Russia in 2014. Azov gained prominence as an effective fighting force against Russian and separatist forces, and President Volodymyr Zelensky depended on them to perform much of the fiercest fighting in the early stages of the 2022 invasion, despite his Jewish heritage.

Azov attempted to reform its brand by claiming it had given up its wolfsangel, or wolf’s hook, emblem, previously used by the Das Reich division of Adolf Hitler’s Waffen-SS, in 2022.

The National Pulse has previously reported on Azov’s propaganda efforts in the West, with their symbol was on full display just weeks ago when unit members visited London to meet one of their most vocal lobbyists, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who posed with a banner bearing it and praised Azov as “heroes.”

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Joe Biden has lifted restrictions on arming the Azov Battalion, a Neo-Nazi Ukrainian military formation founded by a politician who believes it is the Ukrainian nation’s mission to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhumans]”. show more
May 24, 2024
Jack Montgomery
UK
War

VIDEO: Ex-UK PM Boris Johnson Lauds Ukrainian Neo Nazis in Private London Club Appearance.

Video uncovered by the Active Measures investigative journalism project shows Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, praising the Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade at a meeting of leading politicians and uniformed soldiers in London, England. The incident, believed to have occurred on May 22, 2024, appears to have taken place at a swanky, private members club, with Johnson stating: “My message to you is very simple: Thank you to the heroes from the Azov Brigade who honor us with their presence tonight.”

The footage is especially stunning given Johnson’s propensity to invoke the legacy of Sir Winston Churchill, the most avowedly anti-Nazi leader the Western world has ever seen, as part of his political tradition.

“Give the Ukrainians what they need. Give them the weapons, give them the authorization to use those weapons outside their own borders,” Johnson said in his speech, calling it “ludicrous” that Ukraine’s Western backers have asked them not to strike targets inside Russia proper with Western missiles.

“It’s the single best investment that we could make in the defense of the whole Euro-Atlantic area, is supporting Ukrainian heroes… We rely wholly on heroes such as the people who are here tonight with us, from the Azov Brigade,” he insisted.

NOT THE ONLY ‘CONSERVATIVE’ BACKING ACTUAL NAZIS.

Johnson also posed for pictures with uniformed soldiers holding an Azov banner featuring a symbol known as the wolfsangel, or wolf’s hook, used during World War II by Waffen-SS Division Das Reich and other units loyal to Adolf Hitler, whose personal nickname was ‘Wolf.’

The wolf’s hook was supposedly dropped by Azov in 2022 in favor of less obvious Neo-Nazi iconography but was clearly visible on the patches worn by the soldiers attending the Johnson meeting.

Also in attendance were Ben Wallace, the former Defence Secretary, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative Party leader, and other politicians.

Johnson was Prime Minister at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and personally scuppered an early peace deal, according to both Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the then-Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, who helped to broker it.

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Video uncovered by the Active Measures investigative journalism project shows Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, praising the Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade at a meeting of leading politicians and uniformed soldiers in London, England. The incident, believed to have occurred on May 22, 2024, appears to have taken place at a swanky, private members club, with Johnson stating: "My message to you is very simple: Thank you to the heroes from the Azov Brigade who honor us with their presence tonight." show more