SpaceWar.com reports: “Sweden will not be intimidated by Russia’s provocations, Defence Minister Pal Jonson said Friday after President Vladimir Putin hinted at strikes on Western countries supplying weapons to Ukraine.

The Swedish minister’s remarks came as he announced ‘substantial funding’ to Ukraine for the procurement of long-range missiles and drones.

‘The Russian escalation and provocation that we’ve been noticing recently is an attempt to scare us from supporting Ukraine, and that will fail. This will not happen,’ Jonson told reporters at a joint press conference in Stockholm with his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov…

The Kremlin on Friday said it was in ‘no doubt’ that Washington had understood the warning from President Vladimir Putin following Russia’s strike on Ukraine with a missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

‘We are in no doubt that the current administration in Washington has had the chance to familiarise itself with this announcement and understand it,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters a day after the strike.

Putin on Thursday said the conflict in Ukraine had characteristics of a ‘global’ war and did not rule out strikes on Western countries…”