Boris Johnson: The former British Prime Minister claims that President Vladimir Putin threatened to personally launch a missile assault on him immediately before directing Russian soldiers into Ukraine. According to a brand-new BBC documentary that will be shown on Monday, the alleged threat appeared in a phone conversation soon before the invasion on February 24.
What did Boris Johnson say on Putin?
In an effort to help Ukraine and stave off a Russian invasion, Mr. Johnson and other Western leaders had hurried to Kyiv.
Boris Johnson was quoted saying, “He sort of threatened me at one point and said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but with a missile, it would only take a minute’, or something like that.” Former British PM Johnson strongly supported Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. In the lead up to the invasion, he attempted to convey to Putin that Ukraine had no plans to join NATO, and warned that any invasion would result in an increase of NATO presence near Russia’s borders, not a decrease.
Boris remarked, “He said, ‘Boris, you say that Ukraine is not going to join NATO any time soon.”
“’What is any time soon?’ And I said, ‘well it’s not going to join NATO for the foreseeable future. You know that perfectly well’.” Mr. Johnson continued further on saying about the missile, “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.”
BBC documentary tracks the war and developments
In the years leading up to the invasion of Ukraine, the BBC documentary tracks the widening gap between the West and the Russian president. Additionally, it has Mr. Zelenskyy lamenting the failure of his earlier attempts to join NATO.
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