“We recommend that British servicemen study well not only the geography of Russia, but also its history,” Konashenkov said.
According to him, the British military should learn history, "so as not to enrich the general military history with their lives for the sake of poorly educated British politicians."
“The legendary destruction on the same day by Russian artillerymen in just 20 minutes of an entire aristocratic English light cavalry brigade under the command of Lord Cardigan entered much brighter in the history of the Balaklava battle,” added a representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
He stressed that it was this "feat" of the British in the Crimean War that enriched all the languages of the world and military textbooks with the concept of "cannon fodder".
Earlier, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said that in the past the British side "kicked Tsar Nicholas I" and now London "can always repeat this."
He also added that Russian President Vladimir Putin made the same mistake that Emperor Nicholas I once made by confronting the West without allies.