Kremlin accuse Boris Johnson of LYING about Putin threatening to kill him trends now
The Kremlin has accused former British prime minister Boris Johnson of lying when he said President Vladimir Putin had threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine.
Johnson, speaking to the BBC for a documentary, said the Russian leader had threatened him with a missile strike that would 'only take a minute'.
'He threatened me at one point, and he said, ''Boris, I don't want to hurt you but, with a missile, it would only take a minute'' or something like that,' Johnson said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov today bit back, telling reporters that Johnson had fabricated the allegations.
'What Mr. Johnson said is not true. More precisely it's a lie... There were no missile threats,' Peskov declared.
Boris claimed Putin made the accusation on a phone call just prior to the invasion of Ukraine
Boris Johnson (L) said Vladimir Putin (R) bragged it would 'take only a minute' to kill him with a missile after he warned him to abandon his plans to attack Ukraine
Johnson claims Putin's astonishing threat was made in February last year after the former prime minister visited Kyiv to assure Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky that Britain would back his country if Russia were to invade.
Johnson said that on his return, he had 'a very long, most extraordinary call' with Putin. At the time, the Russian president was publicly denying that he planned to invade Ukraine, despite massing tens
