(MENAFN) Leader Vladimir Putin endangered to personally attack Boris Johnson with a missile assault just days ahead of sending Russian militaries into Ukraine, the previous UK premier has stated.
The obvious threat came in a phone discussion just before of the attack on the 24th of February, in line with a fresh BBC documentary to be airing on Monday.
Johnson and additional Western presidents had been rushing to Kyiv to express their backing for Ukraine and in an attempt to prevent a Russian invasion.
“He sort of threatened me at one point and said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but with a missile, it would only take a minute’, or something like that,” Johnson recited Putin as stating.
Johnson appeared as one of the most emotional Western supporters of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky.
But before the attack, he states that he was at discomforts to inform Putin that there was no looming possibility of Ukraine becoming a part of the NATO, whereas cautioning him that any attack would mean “more NATO, not less NATO” on Russia’s borders.
He elaborated more in saying: “He said, ‘Boris, you say that Ukraine is not going to join NATO any time soon.
“’What is any time soon?’ And I said, ‘well it’s not going to join NATO for the foreseeable future. You know that perfectly well’.”
On the missile threat, Johnson also asserted that: “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.”
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