The Guardian: Boris Johnson says Putin claimed he could send missile to hit UK ‘in a minute’
Former prime minister’s comments about call to Russian president just before invasion come in new BBC documentary Boris Johnson has said that Vladimir Putin claimed he could have sent a missile to hit Britain “within a minute”, in a call just before the invasion of Ukraine.
The former prime minister’s comments came in a three-part documentary for BBC Two looking at the conflict in Ukraine and the lead up to Russia’s invasion in February last year.
It had been in a conversation about hypothetical support for Nato on Russia’s borders if Putin decided to invade, as Johnson tried to talk Putin down.
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They'd release the tape if it was true.
ReplyDeleteIf true, I'm sure that he was reiterating how fast the new missiles are, how close the nations are, etc
ReplyDeleteBoris is a known liar. Would not trust anything he said,
ReplyDeleteSuch is the leadership of a once great nation that has fallen into perdition.
I don't blame Putin. Great Britain is the biggest enemy of Russia, aside from the USA.
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