Sweden It announced a plan of 7.7 million pounds to update civil defense warehouses after warning the Swedes against preparing for the risks of war. The Scandinavian country, which shares the borders with Russia, has 64,000 of these warehouses. The space is said to be enough for seven million people, or nearly three quarters of Sweden’s population of Sweden, who number 10.5 million.
Reports indicate that the Civil Emergency Agency (MSB) is examining shelters, some of which can accommodate thousands of people. The warehouses provide protection from the explosion and heat waves resulting from a nuclear weapon, as well as radioactive repercussions, gas from chemical or biological weapons and bombs fragments.
MSB said on Monday (April 1) that the update will take two to three years, with a work that is already underway on 25 of the 80 largest shelters.
Sweden’s work comes amid increasing tensions about the war in Ukraine and doubting that US President Donald Trump’s commitment to defending Europe.
In January, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that his country “is not in war, but there is no peace” in the period before Sweden, which is specified for a year since it joined the NATO military alliance.
Mr. Christmon pledged to increase defense spending to 2.4 % this year, as it rose to 2.6 % in three years as Sweden seeks to strengthen its armed forces after reducing military spending after the end of the Cold War.
The authorities in Sweden revitalized the country’s “total defense” strategy in 2015 after Russia’s illegal inclusion of the Crimea. It combines both the civil and military defense.
Meanwhile, the British Defense Ministry (MD) announced today (April 1) that the British Royal Air Force Jets will take patrols in Poland’s airspace on the East NATO wing.
British Jets Typhoon Jets arrived in eastern Poland on Tuesday from the British Royal Air Force Lossiemouth to participate in the “improved air police mission”.
The Ministry of Defense said that six combat aircraft in the United Kingdom from II (AC) will be deployed alongside the Swedish Fighter Jets.
Defense Minister Lord Coker met his Polish counterpart, Vladislao Marin Kosiniac Camiz and Swedish Defense Minister Pal Johnson on Tuesday “to clarify the UK’s commitment to European security and the beginning of the operation.”
Publishing is the first time that Swedish fighter planes have participated in the air police on the lands of another NATO ally since Stockholm joined the coalition last year.
In April 2024, six Typhoon fighters were stationed with more than 200 individuals in Romania to defend the eastern border of NATO.
This was followed in August 2024 with the deployment of four F-35B aircraft to Iceland, to defend NATO airspace in the north.
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