Brexit helped to prevent Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin from successfully invading Ukraine, Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed.
The hard-line Tory Eurosceptic suggested a "mucky compromise" would have been made with the Kremlin if the UK had still been tied to Brussels.
Mr Rees-Mogg, a former Cabinet Minister, argued that Boris Johnson would not have been able to offer the same level of British support to Kyiv if the UK had remained in the bloc.
