Sweden will not be intimidated by Russia's provocations, Defence Minister Pal Jonson says after President Vladimir Putin hinted at strikes on Western countries supplying weapons to Ukraine. "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. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES