Russia could also be planning an “distinctive” propaganda assault on the upcoming Swedish elections on 11 September, the nation’s Psychological Defence Company has warned. “It is likely to be an event that somebody want to hurt Sweden, influence the Swedish democracy course of, to do one thing distinctive in direction of the tip of the election marketing campaign,” its spokesman Mikael Östlund advised The Guardian on Sunday. The company was on everlasting “excessive alert,” he added.