{"id":30306,"date":"2023-01-31T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=30306"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:13:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:13:58","slug":"boris-johnson-says-putin-threatened-him-with-missile-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2023\/01\/31\/boris-johnson-says-putin-threatened-him-with-missile-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: The then-prime minister said Mr Putin told him it &#8220;would only take a minute&#8221;. Mr Johnson said the comment was made after he warned the war would be an &#8220;utter catastrophe&#8221; during a &#8220;very long&#8221; call in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the exchange are revealed in a BBC documentary, examining Mr Putin&#8217;s interactions with world leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Johnson warned Mr Putin that invading Ukraine would lead to Western sanctions and more Nato troops on Russia&#8217;s borders.<\/p>\n<p>He also tried to deter Russian military action by telling Mr Putin that Ukraine would not join Nato &#8220;for the foreseeable future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Johnson said: &#8220;He threatened me at one point, and he said, &#8216;Boris, I don&#8217;t want to hurt you but, with a missile, it would only take a minute&#8217; or something like that. Jolly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Desk: The then-prime minister said Mr Putin told him it &ldquo;would only take a minute&rdquo;. Mr Johnson said the comment was made after he warned the war would be an &ldquo;utter catastrophe&rdquo; during a &ldquo;very long&rdquo; call in February 2022. Details of the exchange are revealed in a BBC documentary, examining Mr Putin&rsquo;s interactions with world leaders. Mr Johnson warned Mr Putin that invading Ukraine would lead to Western sanctions and more Nato troops on Russia&rsquo;s borders. He also tried to deter Russian military action by telling Mr Putin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30307,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30308,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30306\/revisions\/30308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}