With various campaigns, Sweden and Finland want to get their people involved Preparing for a possible war sensitize.
The security situation is serious.
Civil Protection Authority Sweden
While the Swedish Civil Protection Agency (MSB) began sending five million brochures on Monday, a website with information went online in Finland.
“The security situation is serious and we all need to strengthen our resilience to face various crises and ultimately war,” said Swedish MSB Director Mikael Frisell.
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The one shipped in Sweden 32-page brochure “When a crisis or war comes” contains information about how people can prepare for emergencies such as war, natural disasters or cyberattacks.
It is an updated version of a booklet that has been sent to households in the Scandinavian country five times since the Second World War – most recently in 2018.
According to the MSB, the edition now being sent out places greater emphasis on preparing for a possible war. The Brochure is in Swedish and Englishbut also on Arabic, Farsi, Ukrainian, Polish, Somali and Finnish available.
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Information on preparing for various crises is also collected on the website published in neighboring Finland.
Since the start of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine in February 2022, Sweden has repeatedly called on its people to to prepare mentally and logistically for war. Fear of such a scenario is also great in Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer-long border with Russia.
In view of the war in Ukraine and the threat from Russia, both countries gave up their decades-long non-alignment and became members of NATO. (AFP)
