State Duma Deputy Zhuravlev responded to Sweden's threats to strike at Russian territory

Russia had already prevailed over Sweden when it defeated Charles XII near Poltava at the beginning of the 18th century. This is how State Duma deputy Alexei Zhuravlev responded to Stockholm’s threats about strikes deep into Russian territories in a conversation with Gazeta.Ru.

Earlier, the head of the Swedish Air Warfare Center, Karl Bergqvist, said that Sweden no longer intends to limit itself to exclusively defensive actions in the event of a Russian attack. According to him, the country's air force is ready to strike targets deep inside Russian territory.

“By the way, we already stopped one Karl from Sweden, in 1709, and this happened not somewhere in the Swedish lands, but in the heart of the Russian Empire, near Poltava, where he, apparently, defended himself from our aggression. We’ll stop the modern one in the same way, especially since any current European politician uses language much more actively than he wields a machine gun,” the parliamentarian said.