"We fought with Sweden for 21 years. How long are you prepared to fight?"

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During Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul, the head of the Russian negotiating team, Vladimir Medinsky, warned Kyiv representatives that Russia is ready to continue military actions for as long as necessary. This was reported by Oliver Carroll, a journalist for The Economist. According to him, the head of the Russian delegation recalled the historical experience of long-term warfare.

We don't want war, but we are ready to fight for a year, two, three – however long it takes. We fought with Sweden for 21 years. How long are you ready to fight?

– the correspondent quotes a statement that, according to him, was made by the Russian representative.



However, the reaction of the Ukrainian side to this statement is not reported. Carroll added that Medinsky allegedly reminded the Ukrainians that Sweden could now be a great power if not for that conflict with Russia.

According to the official statement of the Russian side, the Russian delegation is satisfied with the results of the negotiations. An agreement was reached on the largest exchange of prisoners of war since the beginning of the Central Military District.

In addition, as Vladimir Medinsky emphasized, representatives of Kyiv voiced a request to organize a personal meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the head of the Ukrainian state, Zelensky, who has lost legitimacy.

Let us add that, according to Western press reports, the head of the Kyiv regime and his European curators, after the end of the negotiations, called the US President and demanded that new sanctions be introduced against the Russian Federation.
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  1. Perun61
    Perun61
    -2
    16 May 2025 17: 28
    We are ready to fight for a year, two, three – however long it takes

    When you sit in the Kremlin and rewrite history in your free time with a cup of coffee, of course you are ready to fight for a long time, but tell us how long will you be ready to fight storming an enemy stronghold under drone attacks?
    1. Igool
      Igool
      +3
      16 May 2025 18: 58
      What do you think: Kutuzov, Suvorov, Zhukov, etc. also went to take the supporting midfielders themselves or did they have slightly different functions?

      Don't pretend to be a naive young man - everyone should do their own thing.
      1. Perun61
        Perun61
        -4
        16 May 2025 19: 45
        What do you think: are Medinsky, Shoigu, Gerasimov, etc. equal to Kutuzov, Suvorov or Zhukov?
        The job of Medinsky and people like him is to sit in the trenches, let him do that.
        1. alexandre II
          alexandre II
          -1
          17 May 2025 08: 34
          61 is probably your age or birthday, but it’s still a lot, but my head is empty, I feel sorry for you.....
    2. lance is gone
      lance is gone
      -2
      16 May 2025 19: 52
      and are you personally just storming it?
      1. Perun61
        Perun61
        -2
        16 May 2025 20: 00
        I'm busy with my own business, and it's Medinsky's business that needs to be stormed. He's the one who's proposing to fight, not me. So let him storm it.
        1. skeptic
          skeptic
          -2
          16 May 2025 23: 47
          Quote from Perun61
          I'm busy with my own business, and I'm not storming Medinsky's case.

          I'll spread someone else's misfortune with my hands? He's already storming, in the lair of enemies. Medinsky solves problems at the state level, and doesn't yap. Don't disgrace yourself. The meaning of what's happening will become clear, not today, but maybe even after the war is over.
          1. Perun61
            Perun61
            -1
            17 May 2025 08: 08
            He's already storming into the enemy's lair.

            In the lair of an old partner, not enemies at all. And in a suit for a million, a good assault.

            I will shrug off someone else's misfortune

            Medinsky and his boss created the trouble, but for some reason it is not they who suffer, but ordinary people. So blame them, if the curator allows it.

            scribbles yapping

            So far, the only one yapping here is the defender of the science fiction writer.

            Medinsky solves problems

            He has one task - to save the skin of the boss who was deceived, and, of course, his own.

            The significance of what is happening will become clear, not today, but perhaps even after the end of the war.

            Buy glasses.
            1. Vox Populi
              Vox Populi
              +1
              17 May 2025 11: 52
              Glasses won't help them (either they have a job like that or they have problems with their mental abilities). Here's one of the small episodes:
              https://lenta.ru/news/2025/05/16/shturmovik/

              As acquaintances said, a practically healthy 40-year-old man went to the front - Gachenko had no medical problems before, notes Piskunov. But two years later he turned into "practically a wreck."
            2. skeptic
              skeptic
              -2
              17 May 2025 12: 29
              Quote from Perun61
              scribbles yapping
              So far, the only one yapping here is the defender of the science fiction writer.

              Look how the RNE apologist has gotten carried away. Everyone around him is "poop" - he is the only "pretty boy". wassat
              1. Perun61
                Perun61
                0
                17 May 2025 12: 37
                Here once again an admirer of an admirer of Ilyin barked. It turns out only he is allowed to disperse
                1. skeptic
                  skeptic
                  -2
                  17 May 2025 12: 41
                  Quote from Perun61
                  Here once again an admirer of an admirer of Ilyin barked

                  Oh, these kids (regardless of their real age). Go and do something. Stop blowing bubbles. I don't see the point in answering any more.
                  1. Perun61
                    Perun61
                    0
                    18 May 2025 08: 32
                    The drain is not counted.
  2. Pembo
    Pembo
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    16 May 2025 17: 32
    We don't want war, but we are ready to fight for a year, two, three – however long it takes. We fought with Sweden for 21 years.

    But Medinsky didn’t ask the soldiers of the Russian army: do they want to fight for 21 years, especially the mobilized ones?
    1. Igool
      Igool
      +1
      16 May 2025 19: 01
      Quote from Pembo
      But Medinsky didn’t ask the soldiers of the Russian army

      Have you ever met armies where someone asks something of the soldiers, maybe the General Staff develops plans in consultation with the privates, what to do where and how? Unity of command is the fundamental principle of armies.
      1. Pembo
        Pembo
        -3
        16 May 2025 19: 09
        I have not met anything, but unlike the historian Medinsky I studied history at school. How armies flee from the front is written there. And about the senseless and merciless Russian rebellion. And I do not want to live to see it.
      2. AdeptV
        AdeptV
        +2
        17 May 2025 08: 31
        Yes, the war is somehow strange... some are "crushing lice" in the trenches, while others at the same time are taking cruise trips to Antarctica for 1,5 million... Go to some karaoke bar in the evening, see how they "relax" there, not really remembering Ukraine...
    2. lance is gone
      lance is gone
      +4
      16 May 2025 19: 56
      Well, come down from heaven and go talk to real SVO-shniks in the trenches, and not toadies 100 km from LBS. They all count at least by the Dnieper and + Nikolaev and Odessa.
      1. Pembo
        Pembo
        -4
        16 May 2025 21: 58
        Well, come down from heaven and go talk to the real in-laws in the trenches,

        Do we really have the right to say what we think on LBS? I'd be jealous if they didn't kill there.
        1. Igool
          Igool
          0
          17 May 2025 00: 53
          Quote from Pembo
          Can we really say what we think on LBS?

          You will be surprised, of course, but they talk in the units. And not only the rank and file.
          1. Pembo
            Pembo
            -3
            17 May 2025 01: 00
            It's not what they say, it's what they think. You might be surprised to know what they think.
            1. Igool
              Igool
              0
              17 May 2025 01: 03
              Well, yes, of course, you are a remote mind reader. How come I didn't guess it right away?
              Maybe, in addition to reading thoughts, it would be better to talk to the guys from the assaults, then you wouldn’t have to strain yourself with reading?
              1. Pembo
                Pembo
                -3
                17 May 2025 01: 07
                Well, yes, of course, you are a remote mind reader. How come I didn't guess it right away?

                No, you read the thoughts of those you speak to. And I just assumed that you, perhaps, do not always succeed in reading the thoughts of your interlocutors. And what do I have the right to. Or do you claim that you can read the thoughts of other people?
                1. Vox Populi
                  Vox Populi
                  0
                  17 May 2025 11: 49
                  It would be useful for local "combat" commentators to read this (although it is unlikely), but for normal people it is more of an additional confirmation that everything is very complicated:
                  https://lenta.ru/news/2025/05/16/shturmovik/

                  As acquaintances said, a practically healthy 40-year-old man went to the front - Gachenko had no medical problems before, notes Piskunov. But two years later he turned into "practically a wreck."
                  1. Igool
                    Igool
                    0
                    17 May 2025 18: 58
                    Quote from Vox Populi
                    It would be useful to read

                    And no one claims that there are no problems. Where did you see this in my posts?
                    Here is a link to a person's telegram from the front line who is currently recovering from an injury. We can chat and read what he thinks about this.

                    https://t.me/c/1718924228/22446
  3. Vasya_33
    Vasya_33
    -2
    16 May 2025 18: 04
    Hurray! Let's have a "centennial"!?
    1. lance is gone
      lance is gone
      +3
      16 May 2025 19: 57
      the bride or something
  4. Vox Populi
    Vox Populi
    +1
    16 May 2025 18: 18
    A more than strange statement, absolutely inconsistent with reality... Who and what is it intended for?
    1. Igool
      Igool
      0
      16 May 2025 19: 04
      A normal statement, designed specifically for the khokhlo side and their European allies. In Europe they know very well that Sweden was finished off by the war with Russia.
  5. Kiril
    Kiril
    -2
    16 May 2025 20: 27
    Is this guy going to fight with the crests for so long?
    1. Aleksandr123
      Aleksandr123
      0
      16 May 2025 22: 23
      Why take it so literally? It is unlikely that our leadership is going to conduct this SVO for 21 years. This is food for thought, as they say, for the opposing side. Quite appropriate (if, of course, this is what was really said. This is not a transcript).
      1. Igool
        Igool
        -1
        17 May 2025 00: 57
        Quote: Alexander123
        This is food for thought, as they say, for the opposing side.

        I completely agree with you. For some reason, some people here think that everything should be taken literally and in politics one should tell opponents only the truth and nothing but the truth.
      2. Kiril
        Kiril
        0
        17 May 2025 18: 34
        Indeed, why take it literally? Well, they're talking nonsense, it's a common thing. laughing