LONDON: Former British prime minister Boris Johnson has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine. Johnson, who was speaking to the BBC for
Johnson, who was speaking to the BBC for a documentary, said the Russian leader asked him about the prospects of Ukraine joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization , to which he had responded it would not be"for the foreseeable future".
"He threatened me at one point, and he said, 'Boris, I don't want to hurt you but, with a missile, it would only take a minute' or something like that. Jolly," Johnson said, recalling the"very long" and"most extraordinary" call in February 2022 which followed a visit by the then-prime minister to Kyiv.
"But I think from the very relaxed tone that he was taking, the sort of air of detachment that he seemed to have, he was just playing along with my attempts to get him to negotiate." Relations between Moscow and London had sunk to their lowest level in decades even before Russia invaded Ukraine, on the back of the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the British city of Salisbury in 2018.in September 2022 in the wake of a series of scandals, sought to position London as Kyiv's top ally in the West.
While in office, he visited Kyiv several times and called on Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy frequently.
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