No10 dismisses Moscow claims that Boris made nuclear threat

DOWNING Street last night rejected claims on Russian state TV that Boris Johnson threatened to carry out a nuclear strike against Russia.

The accusation was made on a chat show on Rossiya 1, a state-run TV channel based in Moscow, and widely circulated on pro-Kremlin social media channels and news websites over the weekend.

Presenter Olga Skabeyeva said last week that the Prime Minister had signalled he would launch the deadly strike ‘without consulting Nato’.

However, last night Downing Street said these claims were ‘another example of disinformation peddled by the Kremlin’.

A statement added: ‘The UK Government is entirely united with its Nato allies in supporting Ukraine against Russia’s illegal invasion.’

However, the baseless claim has already been propagated by a number of official figures and has run on pro-Kremlin news websites such as Pravda, and prompted threats of a counter-attack on the UK.