The Kremlin claims that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “lied” when he said that before the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike, writes Reuters.

The press secretary of the Kremlin, Dmytro Peskov, said that what the ex-prime minister of Great Britain said was not true, or rather, a lie.

• “It’s either a conscious lie, so you have to ask Mr. Johnson why he decided to say that, or it was an unconscious lie and he didn’t really understand what Putin was talking about,” Peskov said.

Peskov said Putin had effectively explained to Boris Johnson that if Ukraine joined the NATO alliance, US or NATO missiles stationed near Russia’s borders “could reach Moscow within minutes.” “If this passage is understood in this way, it is a very uncomfortable situation,” said Peskov.

“At one point he threatened me and said, ‘Boris, I don’t want you to get hurt, but with the rocket it will only take a minute’ or something like that. But given his very calm tone, his detachment, I think he was just toying with my attempts to try to get him to negotiate,” said former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the BBC documentary Putin vs. the West. which will be displayed. Monday evening. He recounted a phone conversation he allegedly had with Putin in February 2022, before the invasion of Ukraine.