"Putin was playing with me": Johnson told about conversation with Russian President in February 2022

The Russian president tried to force Britain's expression that Ukraine would never join NATO. According to Johnson, Ukraine was not taken to the Alliance because they were afraid of Russian leader. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He reported this in an interview with Babel. "This conversation with Putin was about early February 2022. He said he was not going to attack.

He was indignant that Ukraine wanted to join NATO and place rockets in his territory," said Boris Johnson. According to him, he replied that it was true then - Ukraine will not join NATO in the near future because many countries against, namely France, Germany, Hungary. In addition, Johnson stressed that Ukraine does not pose a threat to Russia. Then Putin clarified what means "in the near future. " "He tried to make me say that Ukraine would never join NATO.

I could not say that because I didn't believe it," Johnson said. The former Prime Minister of Britain noted that there are currently no arguments against Ukraine's accession to the Alliance, in particular because Putin "has been" destroyed by all "with his attack. " He said that Ukraine was not to be taken to NATO because they feared the Russian president, which, as a result, led to "the worst in the 80 years of the war in Europe.

" Boris Johnson is convinced that Ukraine should be taken as soon as possible to the Alliance after the war. "Even during this conversation, Putin was playing with me. He tried to present this conflict as a nuclear confrontation between Russia and NATO. He ambiguously joked," I would not like to harm you with nuclear weapons, Boris, "Putin said.

that this could happen to happen, and that such mistakes did not need anyone, said Boris Johnson and added that he later realized that during that conversation on February 2, Putin made a decision to invade Ukraine and only tried to voice his arguments that were delusional. "The question was not in NATO. It was about his dislike for Ukraine and the fear that it would choose another way, different from Russia.

It was about his desire to suppress Ukrainian freedom, to rebuild the Soviet Empire, "he is convinced. Recall that on October 9, the UK Expremier Boris Johnson stated that the chief of private military company" Wagner "Yevgeny Prigogine could kill Russian President Vladimir Putin. He believes that Putin killed one of his most favorable lieutenants in the eyes of the whole world to show what remains the main one.