Putin threatened me with missile attack: Former UK PM Johnson

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike in an unusual phone ‘call’ just before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February last year. Johnson, who was Britain’s prime minister at the time, has said that Putin told him that “it would only take a minute.” In fact, during a phone conversation last year, Johnson warned against war, saying that it would be disastrous. There will be results.

The details of the talks have been revealed in a BBC documentary ‘Putin vs the West’. It will be aired on Monday. The documentary is based on Putin’s talks with world leaders. Johnson reportedly warned Putin that a conflict with Ukraine would lead to sanctions by the West and the deployment of more North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops along Russia’s border.

He tried to resist the Russian military action by telling the Russian President that Ukraine would not join NATO in the near future. Johnson told the BBC, “They threatened me and said ‘Boris, I don’t want to harm you, but it will only take a minute (to attack) with a missile or something like that’.” “But I think the calmness with which he was speaking … was merely playing on my attempts to persuade him to talk,” she added.

The BBC noted that the British Prime Minister’s Office and the Russian President’s Office made no reference to the conversation at the time. The BBC documentary also revealed that UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace left Moscow in February 2022 with assurances that Russia would not attack Ukraine, but said both sides knew it was a lie. Is. “I think it was about me (Putin) being powerful,” Wallace told the BBC.

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