Johnson reveals the backstage of talks with Putin. “It would take a minute with a rocket”

In a three-part documentary, the first episode of which is due to air on Monday night, the then prime minister in a “very lengthy” telephone conversation with Putin warned him that invasion of Ukraine will lead to Western sanctions and more NATO troops on Russia’s borders.

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Johnson also tried to stop Russian military action by assuring Putin that Ukraine would not join NATO “for the foreseeable future.”

“At one point he kind of threatened me and said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you, but with a missile, it would take a minute’ or something like that,” Johnson reported.

“I think Putin, judging by the very relaxed tone he seemed to have, was toying with my attempts to get him to negotiate,” said the former British Prime Ministerwho left Downing Street in early September last year after a string of scandals.