Germany is reportedly compiling a list of places that could keep its citizens safe (Image: Getty)
Germany is reportedly drawing up a list of places that could be used as nuclear shelters in the event of a Russian attack.
Underground train stations and car parks have reportedly been earmarked for potential safety sites.
In addition, state buildings and private properties could be repurposed, . A German interior minister detailed yesterday that a ‘digital directory’ will be drawn up.
This is so people can find shelters quickly using an app. In addition, the minister added that people would be encouraged to create bunkers in their homes by converting basements and garages.
But he declined to provide a timetable, insisting that the project would take some time to develop. It is believed that Germany already has 579 bunkers, mostly from the second world war and the cold war era, which can provide shelter for 480,000 people.
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Parts of a missle after reports of an ICBM attack on Dnipro in Ukraine (Image: Getty)
It comes as a NATO chief urges member states to prepare for a ‘wartime scenario’.
Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer warned in a speech in Brussels yesterday that countries needed to adapt their production and distribution lines in order to be less vulnerable to blackmail from and China, .
allegedly last week. The ordinance is a long-range projectile capable of carrying nuclear or conventional warheads over vast distances.
Peter Stano, the EU’s foreign affairs spokesman, accused Moscow of ‘taking a nuclear gamble’.
It is thought that the move was a response to the UK and US giving the green light to launch storm shadow missiles at Russian territory.
On Tuesday, November 19, Putin lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike, .
“The big picture is that is lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a possible conventional attack,” Alexander Graef, a senior researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, told the news agency.