Boris Johnson: Putin threatened me with missiles

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he openly threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with a missile attack.

While Russia’s occupation of Ukraine increased tension between Moscow and London, which gave military support to kyiv, news that Russia might even attack London with the newly developed hypersonic missiles was reported in the press. As the tension between Russia and Western countries grew, Boris Johnson made remarkable remarks. The former British Prime Minister, who resigned in July after the scandals, shared shocking moments from a meeting with Putin with the press.

Speaking in the documentary “Putin vs. the West” to be broadcast on the BBC, Johnson claimed that Putin, whom he had met to prevent him from invading Ukraine, openly threatened to kill him. Johnson said the Russian leader, with whom he spoke by phone just after visiting kyiv in February last year, told him: “Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but it will only take a minute with the missile.”

Noting that Putin called him, Johnson said: “I have clearly conveyed to him that the invasion of Ukraine will be a terrible disaster and will trigger the unique sanctions of the West. I said that Ukraine will not be a member of NATO any time soon, but they asked me ‘What do you mean soon?’ he asked. ““With his calm, nonchalant tone, he seemed to be listening to my efforts to negotiate with him,” Johnson said.

‘ZELENSKY WAS VERY CLEAN’

Explaining that two weeks after this extraordinary meeting, on February 24, when the Russian invasion began, he received a call from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at midnight, Johnson said: “Zelensky was very calm. But he told me that they were attacking me from all sides,” he said. Saying that the Ukrainian leader offered to help her evacuate to safety, Johnson said: “He did not accept this offer. He heroically stayed where he was.”

In the BBC documentary, then British Defense Minister Ben Wallace went to Moscow to meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu on February 11. Wallace left with assurances that Russia would not invade Ukraine, but both sides they said it was a lie, even. the details he knew.

In the documentary, Wallace described his meeting with Shoigu as “intimidation and a show of force” and said, “I’ll lie to you, you know I’m lying and I know you know I’m lying, but I’ll lie to you anyway.”

The former British minister also noted that as he was leaving the meeting, Russian Chief of Staff Valeri Gerasimov had told him: “We will never be humiliated again.”