Boris Johnson says Putin threatened to ‘hurt’ him with missile strike after visiting Ukraine

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to attack him with a missile strike after he visited Ukraine prior to the start of the war last year. 

Johnson made the remark while speaking to the BBC about a “very long” and “most extraordinary” call he received from Putin following a visit to Kyiv on Feb. 1, 2022, just 19 days before the war began, according to Reuters. 

“He said: ‘Boris, you say that Ukraine is not going to join NATO any time soon.’ He said it in English — ‘any time soon. What is any time soon?’” Johnson told the BBC. 

“And I said: ‘It’s not going to join NATO for the foreseeable future. You know that perfectly well,’” he continued. 

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Then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the presidential palace in Kyiv on Feb. 1, 2022.
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