Sweden will send out instructions to its citizens next week on how to cope with an outbreak of war, as the country faces an aggressive Russia across the Baltic Sea, the Reuters website reports today (May 22, 2018).
The 20-page pamphlet, titled "If Crisis on War Comes," gives advice on getting clean water, spotting propaganda, and finding a bomb shelter, in the first public awareness campaign of its kind since the days of the Cold War.
The pamphlet also tells Swedes they have a duty to act if their country is threatened. "If Sweden is attacked by another country, we will never give up," the booklet says.
Sweden and several other countries located near Russia have been on alert since Russia's illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula in March, 2014. Sweden has also accused Russia of repeated violations of its airspace during the past few years -- accusations that Russia has denied or ignored.
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