(ANSA-AFP) - LONDON, JAN 30 - President Vladimir Putin
threatened to personally target Boris Johnson with a missile
attack just before ordering Russian forces into Ukraine, the
former UK prime minister has claimed. The apparent threat came
in a phone call just ahead of the invasion on February 24,
according to a new BBC documentary to be broadcast on Monday.
Johnson and other Western leaders had been hurrying to Kyiv to
show support for Ukraine and try to deter a Russian attack. "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 quoted Putin as
saying. Johnson emerged as one of the most impassioned Western
backers of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. (ANSA-AFP).
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Boris Johnson: Putin threatened to lob missile at me
According to a new BBC documentary to be broadcast on Monday