He claims that Putin allegedly made a death threat to British politician Boris Johnson.
He claims that Putin allegedly made a death threat to British politician Boris Johnson. The accusation that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was threatened with a missile attack by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a phone call in the lead-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been disputed by Moscow. Johnson has stated that Putin made the threat.
In an interview with the BBC for a documentary, Johnson stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin had asked him about the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO. Johnson responded that this would not be the case “for the foreseeable future.” Johnson’s comments were made about the documentary.
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The accusation that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was threatened with a missile attack by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a phone call in the lead-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been disputed by Moscow. Johnson has stated that Putin made the threat.
In an interview with the BBC for a documentary, Johnson stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin had asked him about the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO. Johnson responded that this would not be the case “for the foreseeable future.” Johnson’s comments were made about the documentary.
“But I believe, based on the extremely relaxed tone that he was assuming and the type of air of detachment that he seemed to have, that he was just playing along with my attempts to get him to talk,” the speaker said. “It was clear that he was not interested in reaching an agreement.”
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Kremlin, stated to the press that what Johnson had said was not accurate, or “more precisely, a falsehood.”
Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, relations between Moscow and London had reached their lowest level in decades due to the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the British city of Salisbury in 2018. This incident occurred in 2018.
Johnson, who resigned as prime minister in September due to several scandals, worked to establish London as Kyiv’s most crucial partner in the Western world. During his office, he made multiple trips to Kyiv and communicated regularly with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
