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Peter I would turn over in his grave if he knew about today’s Ukraine, says Naryshkin

Sergei Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service

11 April 2022 12:44 (UTC +04:00)

"Russian Emperor Peter I would now be turning over in his grave if he knew what Ukraine has come to in the last three decades," says Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, chairman of the Russian Historical Society, APA reports citing Sputnik.

“One of the most grandiose military victories was won by Peter I in the battle of Poltava. I think he would turn over in his grave, having learned what the descendants of the glorious Cossacks have brought these lands to in the last three decades,” Naryshkin said on Monday at the opening of Moscow historical and documentary exhibition “Peter I and his era”.