Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A wannan lokacin, a cikin 1707, Peter ya ba da damar dawo da duk abin da ya mallaka har zuwa yanzu (a zahiri Ingria) ban da Saint Petersburg da layin Neva, don kauce wa cikakken yaƙi, amma Charles XII ya ƙi. Maimakon haka ya fara tafiya daga Saxony don mamaye Rasha. Kodayake burinsa na farko shi ne Moscow, ƙarfin sojojinsa ya ragu saboda yanayin sanyi (hunturu na 1708/09 yana ɗaya daga cikin mawuyacin hali a tarihin Turai na zamani) da kuma amfani da Peter na dabarun ƙone ƙasa. Lokacin da babban rundunar ta juya kudu don farfadowa a Ukraine, rundunar ta biyu tare da kayayyaki da ƙarfafawa an kama su kuma an tura su a Lesnaya
<unk> haka kuma kayayyaki da karfafawa na abokin kawancen Sweden Ivan Mazepa a Baturyn. Charles ya ci nasara da babbar rundunar Rasha karkashin Peter a yakin Poltava kuma ya gudu zuwa Daular Ottoman yayin da ragowar sojojinsa suka mika wuya a Perevolochna.