The Kremlin has said the former UK prime minister Boris Johnson was lying when he said the Russian president threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run-up to what Moscow calls its 'special military operation' in Ukraine.

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Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that what Johnson said was not true, or 'more precisely, a lie'. Peskov also said the west’s supplying of further weapons to Ukraine would only lead to 'significant escalation' of the conflict.

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