Oh brother...

This is fiction and not even well-written fiction. Boris Johnson was threatened by Putin nearly a year ago and he's just now going public with this nonsense.

And Putin threatened him "in English" not via an interpreter. OK. Because you can't tell this lie without him speaking to you in English, because you, Sir, do not speak Russian.

In-part:

"He said: 'Boris, you say that Ukraine is not going to join NATO any time soon.' He said it in English -- 'any time soon. What is any time soon?'" Johnson told the BBC.

"He threatened me at one point, and he said, 'Boris, I don't want to hurt you but, with a missile, it would only take a minute' or something like that," Johnson recalled.

"But 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," the former prime minister also said.