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Former UK Prime minister, Boris Johnson has said Russian president, Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike in an “extraordinary” phone call in the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The then-prime minister said Putin told him it “would only take a minute”.
Johnson said the comment was made after he warned Putin the war would be an “utter catastrophe” during a “very long” call in February 2022.
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Details of the conversation are revealed in a new BBC documentary, “Putin vs the West” examining Mr Putin’s interactions with world leaders before invasion of Ukraine.
Johnson warned Putin that invading Ukraine would lead to Western sanctions and more Nato troops on Russia’s borders.
He also tried to deter Russian military action by telling Putin that Ukraine would not join Nato “for the foreseeable future”.
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“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. Jolly.
“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.”
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