Putin Threatened Missile Strike Against UK Before Ukraine Invasion

Boris Johnson Claims Putin Threatened Missile Strike On U.K. – Former British Prime Minister Boris JohnsonThe Parliamentary Conservative Party removed him from office and claimed that he was the Russian President. Vladimir Putin Once threatened, the United Kingdom With a missile strike before the Russian invasion This is Ukraine.

An ex-PM of Britain stated that Putin claimed that a strike would be called. “only take a minute” Putin made this comment after he was warned about the dangers of invading Ukraine. “utter catastrophe.” Johnson stated that he had told the Russian president to go ahead with the invasion after months of negotiations. Russian military Activity at the border would result in massive sanctions from NATO and additional NATO troops stationed along the border with Ukraine.

“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…Jolly,” Johnson said.

Did Putin Take It Seriously?

A threat from one leader in the world is not new.

A former lawyer died in March 2013. Donald TrumpRudy Giuliani claimed Trump once said to the Russian president that he would drop bombs against Russian churches if Russia invaded Ukraine.

Giuliani insisted that the former president’s approach to Putin was not only to praise him in public, but also to warn the Russian president of the dire consequences that would follow if he chose to go ahead with rumored plans to invade Ukraine.

“So, he has a meeting with Putin and he tells him, they’re talking about Ukraine and he says, ‘Vladimir, you shouldn’t, like, attack Ukraine, because then I’m gonna…well, I never liked those big, what are those things you’ve got in Moscow? Those big bubbles, those big gold bubbles?’” Giuliani stated.

“‘I never liked those things, so, I’m going to have to blow them up,’” Giuliani said the same thing, paraphrasing the former President.

Putin’s speech Trump that he was talking about churches, Trump reportedly called Putin’s bluff, telling him he doesn’t believe that he cares about churches.

If that’s the way the former leader of the United States, the most powerful democracy in the world, talks to the president of Russia, then Putin’s comments to the British prime minister suddenly seem less scandalous.

Moscow Denies It

The Kremlin, however, is not denying the possibility of the comments. quick to deny Boris Johnson’s claim.

Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported January 30 Dmitry Peskov, President Putin’s press secretary, denied the allegations. Peskov appeared to take care, however, to avoid explicitly calling the former British prime minister a liar, arguing that he perhaps didn’t understand what the Russian president was saying.

“No, what Mr. Johnson said is not true, or rather, it is a lie,” Peskov stated. “And moreover, I will say whether this is either a deliberate lie, then, probably, the question for what purpose he chose this version of the presentation, or it was unconscious and in fact he did not understand what President Putin was talking to him about. Then it becomes a little uncomfortable for the interlocutors of our president.”

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Jack Buckby is 19FortyFive’s Breaking News Editor. He is a British author and counter-extremism researcher, as well as a journalist based out of New York. Reporting on the U.K., Europe, and the U.S., he works to analyze and understand left-wing and right-wing radicalization, and reports on Western governments’ approaches to the pressing issues of today. His books and research papers examine these topics and offer pragmatic solutions for our increasingly polarized society.