He [Vladimir Putin] 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. Jolly.
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.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He [Vladimir Putin] 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. Jolly.
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." in the context of ""Ukraine: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike" BBC News (30 January 2023)
• Account of a phone call in February 2022 shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a BBC documentary series (Putin vs the West) on President Putin's contacts with world leaders. A Kremlin spokesman is reported to have described Johnson's account as "a lie"." to mean that wisdom is timeless.