Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Kremlin Says Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Is Lying About Putin Missile ‘Threat’

RT: Johnson lied about Putin missile ‘threat’ – Kremlin  

The former British prime minister claimed the Russian president had made the comments in a telephone call last February  

Allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened then-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a missile strike are “a lie,” Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. Johnson’s accusations have emerged in a new BBC documentary about the crisis in Ukraine. 

Recalling a telephone call with Putin on February 2, 2022, just over three weeks before tensions over Ukraine escalated into full military action, Johnson claimed the Russian leader “threatened me at one point.” 

He said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you but, with a missile, it would only take a minute’ or something like that… jolly,” the former PM told the British broadcaster. “There were no missile threats,” Peskov told reporters on Monday. “When he explained challenges to the security of the Russian Federation, President Putin remarked that if Ukraine joins NATO, the potential deployment of NATO or American missiles at our borders would mean that any missile could reach Moscow in mere minutes.”  

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Update #1: 'Lies': Kremlin blasts ex-UK PM’s claims about Putin’s alleged threats in phone call (TASS)  

Update #2: Kremlin Says Johnson's Claim About Putin Threatening Him With Missile Strike is Bold-Faced Lie (Sputnik)  

WNU Editor: The Kremlin was reacting to this .... Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Says Putin Threatened To Kill Him 'With A Missile' Just Before The Invasion (January 29, 2023).

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why give Putin the benefit of the doubt?

Putin was the man(?) that brought a large dog to his meeting with Prime Minister Merkel knowing that she is afraid of large dogs.

The helluva it was that Merkel like many German PM's (Schroeder, Scholzy) was actually sympathetic to Russia and not a threat.

Anonymous said...

Why give Boris Johnson the benefit of the doubt.

If it happened then they would leak the tape. Russia won’t release the tape because it goes against international norms but western countries have done that with Putin multiple times in the past couple years.

Anonymous said...

Boris has not started any wars. Putin has started many. So Pootin gets no benefit of doubt

Anonymous said...

Boris is an undisputed liar and you all are deluded ideologies. Your ideology makes you blind.

Anonymous said...

You have no clue what my ideology is.

Anonymous said...

Yes. I know one part of it only to well. It's called Russian derangement syndrome. It is part of a world wide non thinking narrative that can be identified by a simple equation

Non thinking = Russia always bad + USA/NATO always right.