Boris Johnson said Putin threatened: Before sending Russian forces into Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin allegedly promised to personally strike former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a missile.
A brand-new BBC documentary that will be aired on Monday claims that the apparent threat appeared in a phone call immediately before the invasion on February 24.
To help Ukraine and try to stop a Russian attack, Johnson and other Western leaders had been rushing to Kyiv.
Johnson described Putin as stating, “He kind of threatened me at one point and said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but with a missile, it would just take a minute,’ or something along those lines.
Johnson has emerged as one of Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukrainestaunchest,’s Western supporters.
However, he claims that he took great care to inform Putin before the invasion that there was no immediate likelihood of Ukraine joining NATO and that any assault would result in “more NATO, not less NATO” on Russia’s borders.
“Boris Johnson on Ukraine’s NATO Membership and Russian Threat”
“Boris, you claim that Ukraine won’t join NATO any time soon, he remarked.
What does “anytime soon?” mean? And I responded, “Well, it won’t be joining NATO for a while.” You are fully aware of that.
Johnson continued, in reference to the missile threat: “I assume from the very comfortable 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.”
In the years leading up to the invasion of Ukraine, the BBC documentary tracks the widening gap between the West and the Russian president.
Zelensky thinks back on his failed attempts to join NATO before Russia attacked.
Why don’t you offer me something now that I can use to stop Russia from occupying Ukraine if you know it will happen tomorrow? he asks.
“Or, if you can’t give it to me, stop it yourself,” the person said.
