The Kremlin has accused Boris Johnson, the former British Prime Minister, 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.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, told reporters that what Johnson said was not true, or “more precisely, a lie”.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Johnson said that 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,” Mr Johnson said.
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