Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to direct a Russian missile strike at Britain in the leadup to his invasion of Ukraine, Boris Johnson said in a new hair-raising disclosure.
In an interview with the BBC, Johnson, who was serving as British prime minister when Russia invaded its neighbor, recalled Putin telling him: “Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but with a missile it would only take a minute.”
Johnson said Putin’s warning came during a dialogue about Ukraine’s potential path into NATO, a 30-member military alliance, and after the British leader suggested a war would be catastrophic, according to the BBC. The broadcaster interviewed the former prime minister for a documentary.
