Former prime minister’s comments about call to Russian president just before invasion come in new BBC documentary
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The former prime minister’s comments came in a three-part documentary for BBC Two looking at the conflict inIt had been in a conversation about hypothetical support for Nato on Russia’s borders if Putin decided to invade, as Johnson tried to talk Putin down. “I think from the very relaxed tone that he was taking, the sort of air of detachment that he seemed to have, he was just playing along with my attempts to get him to negotiate.”
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