From a Washington Post story by Karla Adam headlined “Putin threatened to kill me, Britain’s Boris Johnson says”:

Former British prime minister Boris Johnson says Russian President Vladimir Putin personally threatened him with a missile attack in the run-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — a claim quickly denied by the Kremlin.

The accusation came in excerpts of a BBC documentary on Putin and the West set to air later Monday, and Johnson conceded that the Russian leader might have been joking.