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UK’s Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile attack

Former British PM Boris Johnson arrives for a meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine [File: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters]

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile attack during a phone call in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine, in an allegation the Kremlin has refused.

Johnson, speaking to the BBC for a documentary to be broadcast later on Monday, said the Russian leader had asked him about the prospects of Ukraine joining NATO, to which he had responded it would not be “for the foreseeable future”.

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