THE Kremlin has denied former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike.
The two were on a “very long” and “extraordinary” call in early February of last year before Russia invaded Ukraine, when Putin supposedly issued the threat, though he also conceded it could’ve been a joke.
“It’s a lie, there were no threats of missiles,” he told reporters during a press briefing. “Speaking about challenges to the security of the Russian Federation, President Putin noted that if Ukraine joined NATO, the potential deployment of NATO or American missiles near our borders would mean that any missile would reach Moscow in minutes. If this passage was perceived in this way, it is very embarrassing,” he said.
In his time as prime minister, Johnson was a big ally of Ukraine, going as far as to travel to Kyiv for an unannounced visit back in April.
