In his response, Mr Putin's spokesman said the former prime minister's claim was "either a deliberate falsehood, in which case you need to ask Mr Johnson why he lied, or it was not a deliberate lie. That is, he didn't understand what President Putin was saying to him"."There were no threats to use missiles," Dmitry Peskov told the BBC.The Kremlin leader, he said, had simply pointed out that "if Ukraine joined Nato the potential deployment of Nato or US missiles near Russia's border would mean that any missile could reach Moscow within minutes".

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