"It will take only a minute": Putin the day before February 24 threatened Johnson with a rocket stroke
" The premiere will take place on the evening of January 30 on the Air Force TV channel 2. Threats to Boris Johnson were heard during a telephone conversation that took place a few weeks before a full -scale invasion of Ukraine . In the process of dialogue, the Kingdom's Expaturemier warned Vladimir Putin that the Great War would lead to a strengthening of sanction policy and an increase in NATO's contingent near Russia's borders.
"At some point he threatened me and said," Boris, I do not want to hurt you, but with a rocket it will take only a minute "or something like that. Fun . . . But I think, judging by the very relaxed tone that he has He was, and in the appearance of detachment, he simply played my attempts to make him negotiate, "Boris Johnson said.
The former head of government noted that during a telephone conversation, Putin was excessively familiar, but he took such threats seriously after Russian intelligence officers carried out a special operation with poisoning in Salisbury. Separately, Johnson remembered the call from President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky on the night of February 24, when the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation began a full -scale invasion.
According to the British politician, he suggested that the Head of State evacuate him to a safe place, but heard the refusal. "Zelensky is very calm. But," he tells me, "you know, they attack everywhere . . . He does not accept my offer (evacuating to a safe place - ed. ). He remained heroically where he was," added Johnson in a documentary. It should be noted that at the forum in Davos, which took place from January 16 to January 20, Boris Johnson commented on the possibility of Russian nuclear strike.