Putin threatened to launch a missile at me, said Boris Johnson

• Johnson and other Western leaders had been rushing to Kyiv.
• Johnson has emerged as one of Volodymyr Zelensky’s supporters.
• A brand-new BBC documentary will be aired on Monday.

London: Prior to sending Russian forces into Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin allegedly promised to personally attack former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a missile attack.

A brand-new BBC documentary that will be aired on Monday claims that the apparent threat appeared in a phone call immediately before the invasion on February 24.

To help Ukraine and try to stop a Russian attack, Johnson and other Western leaders had been rushing to Kyiv.

Johnson described Putin as stating, “He kind of threatened me at one point and said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but with a missile, it would just take a minute,’ or something along those lines.

Johnson has emerged as one of Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukrainestaunchest,’s Western supporters.

However, he claims that he took great care to inform Putin before the invasion that there was no immediate likelihood of Ukraine joining NATO and that any assault would result in “more NATO, not less NATO” on Russia’s borders.

“Boris, you claim that Ukraine won’t be joining NATO any time soon, he remarked.

“What is the time frame? And I responded, “Well, it won’t be joining NATO for a while.” You are fully aware of that.”

Johnson continued, in reference to the missile threat: “I assume from the very comfortable 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.”

In the years leading up to the invasion of Ukraine, the BBC documentary tracks the widening gap between the West and the Russian president.

Zelensky is also shown thinking back on his failed attempts to join NATO before Russia attacked.

“If you know that tomorrow Russia will occupy Ukraine, why don’t you give me something today I can stop it with?” he says.

“Or if you can’t give it to me, then stop it yourself.”

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