AFP
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stated Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike throughout a cellphone name within the run as much as the invasion of Ukraine.
Johnson, talking to the BBC for a documentary, stated the Russian chief had requested him in regards to the prospects of Ukraine becoming a member of NATO, to which he had responded it will 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,” Johnson stated, recalling the “very long” and “most extraordinary” name in February 2022 which adopted a go to 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 degree in many years even earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine, on the again of the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal within the British metropolis of Salisbury in 2018.
Johnson, who stepped down in September within the wake of a collection of scandals, sought to place London as Kyiv’s high ally within the West. While in workplace he visited Kyiv a number of occasions and known as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy steadily.
