Johnson, Putin threatened to bomb UK

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 30 - Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Boris Johnson with a missile attack during an "extraordinary" phone call in the run-up to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine on February 24: the former British prime minister himself said it during an interview by the BBC for a documentary entitled 'Putin against the West'.

The then prime minister said Putin told him "it would be just a minute."

It is impossible to know whether Putin's threat was genuine, writes the BBC.

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