"Risk of miscalculation": Putin was afraid that NATO missiles would fly to Moscow - Johnson

According to Boris Johnson, Vladimir Putin believed on the eve of the invasion that NATO would give Ukraine rockets and hinted to a "inadvertent exchange of nuclear weapons. " Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that during his attempts to convince Vladimir Putin not to attack Ukraine, the Russian president threatened with a nuclear blow. The British politician recounts this in Unleashed memoirs, The Times reports.

Johnson noted that Putin had a serious concern about NATO's possible missiles in the Ukrainian territory, although in fact no one suggested that they place them there. According to him, the Kremlin leader was constantly returning to this topic and emphasized that "it is unlikely to take a long time" for a rocket running from Ukraine to reach Moscow. "At some point, he (Putin-ed.

) Made something like a spooky-housing remark about the risk of miscalculation-an unintentional nuclear exchange between Russia and NATO. This statement. We will remind, on September 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Boris Johnson's expression-minister advised Kiev not to agree to peace, but to continue to fight "until the last Ukrainian".