Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson It tells in a documentary context BBC How does the Russian president Russian President Vladimir Putin She “threatened” him a few days before ordering her His army invaded UkraineHe tells him, “With the missile, it will take a minute.”
In this three-part documentary, the first of which will be broadcast tonight on BBC Two, the former Tory government leader talks about his “very long” and “excellent” conversation with the Russian president following his visit to Kyiv in early February 2022.
Even then, Vladimir Putin continued to stress that he had no intention of ordering an invasion of the neighboring country, despite the massive concentration of Russian forces on the Ukrainian border.
Johnson says he warned the Russian president that the West would impose severe sanctions on Russia if it took the path of armed conflict.
“He told me: Boris, you say that Ukraine will not join NATO soon (…) What do you mean when you say ‘soon’?” Says Boris Johnson. “Well, you won’t join NATO in the near future, you know that very well,” he adds, as the former prime minister, a big supporter of Kiev, answers him. “At one point, he seemed to threaten me, Boris said to me, ‘I don’t want to hurt you, but with a missile, it’ll take a minute’, or something like that,” says Boris Johnson.
And the former prime minister, who left Number 10 Downing Street in early September after a series of scandals, adds: “I think given his very calm tone, and the detachment he seemed to have, it was just a reaction to me trying to get him to negotiate.” .
The documentary also features Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who does not hide that he was angry at the behavior of Western leaders before the war broke out: “If you know that Russia will invade Ukraine tomorrow, why don’t you give me something that can stop it, if you can’t, stop it yourself”, like he said.
In the same documentary, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace talks about his trip to Moscow in February 2022, as part of his efforts to prevent war from breaking out. He tells the vision of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
“I remember telling Minister Shoigu that ‘they will fight,’ he replied ‘my mother is Ukrainian, they won’t fight.’ He also said he had no intention of breaking into the house,” Mr. Wallace stated.
“That was something they call ‘Franny’ in Russian. ‘Franny’ means to show strength and intimidate: I’m going to lie to you. You’ll know I’m lying. I’ll know you know I’m lying. I’m going to lie to you anyway. He knew I knew and I knew he knew. But I think the message The one he wanted to send was that he was strong.”
It was the relatively scary but outright lie that they wouldn’t do it that convinced me they would. I remember when we were walking out, General Gerasimov said, “Never again will we be so humiliated.” We had the fourth largest army in the world, and now we have the second largest. We are America now too. And at that moment I felt that this might be the reason “for their intrusion,” argues Mr. Wallace.
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