How do ordinary poles are preparing for a Russian occupation

On a military training field near Wroclaw, ordinary poles stretched, taught to be armed and how to score. “After the round loading is ready to shoot a weapon,” the instructor, a polish soldier, confused the face of a camouflage.

Young and old men, men and women, parents and children, all came here for a reason: how to learn how to live an armed attack.

In the shooting range, along with a turn, this Saturday morning program, called “Train with Army”, teaches civilians to wear a hand in hand, first aid and gas mask.

“Times are dangerous now, we must be ready,” the project coordinator, Captain Adam Sielicki. “We have a military threat from Russia and are preparing for it.”

Capt Sielicki, the program has been abolished and the Polish government is now planning to expand this to study every adult man in the country. Poland, who shared the borders with both Russia and Ukraine, said that this year will hold almost 5% of GDP at the highest level in NATO.

Last week, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Polish aims to prepare the “strongest army in the region”. Buy aircraft, ships, artillery systems and missiles from Warsaw, USA, Sweden and South Korea, USA, Sweden and South Korea.

Dariusz is one of the participants in the course in Wroclav on Saturday and says it will be “first” to volunteer if it is attacked by Poland. “History has taught us that we must be ready to defend ourselves. We cannot trust anyone. Unions are available today and are broken tomorrow.”

As he eliminated the gas mask, Bartek said he thought the most polares would “take weapons” and will be ready to defend the country.

Agata is involved with a friend. Donald says the selection of Trump’s choice is more disturbing. “He wants to draw (Europe). Therefore, we feel more secure. It is not ready and Russia does not attack us, we will just be a prisoner.”

The statements of Donald Trump and his leadership were caused by deep concern among officials in Warsaw. In February, Pete Hegseth, Polish, Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary Pete Hegseth, should not think that the Europe will continue to “last forever.”

The United States has currently been placed in Poland 10,000 troops, but Washington was announced last month in Rzeszow in the eastern Poland. Authorities say the soldiers will be re-deployed in Poland, but the movement caused more anxiety in the country.

Donald Trump’s Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia’s Vladimir Putin added only anxiety for hot words.

Poland signed a defense agreement with France in the coming days and is on another Pact pipeline with England – Washington is moving to Washawa to move away from strong military ties. There is also talks about Poland brought to the French army under the “nuclear umbrella”.

“I think (Trump), of course, forced us to think more about our security,” he said. “I think the United States does not afford to lose Poland because it would be a sign … We need to trust the United States, we need to think of other options and develop our own capabilities.”

“If the Russians continue their aggressive intentions towards Europe, we will be the first – the goalkeeper,” Mr. Szatkowski says. Poland quickly correlates the military structure “first of all, the geopolitical situation and the experience of history.”

The painful legacy of the Russian occupation can be felt here everywhere.

Wanda, 98-year-old Wanda Traczyk-Stawska, last recent the occupation of Russian forces in 1939, was rejected in 1939.

“I was twelve years old in 1939. We knew that Russia was attacking us,” Russia has been attacking us, and the Germans have exposed us. “

In a shelf, during the 1944 Warsaw rebellion, the Polish metro, a machine gun when the German army is fighting the ruins of the city, is a photo of Wandan, a car weapon. After the second World War, the Germans were pushed back to the dead, the Soviet Union installed the Moscow Pro-Moscow regime in Poland, which governs the country by 1989.

Currently, 216,000 servicemen and women are Polish Armed Forces. The government says the second largest serviceman in NATO after the United States, including up to half a million.

Wanda, I think this is a good thing that the Polish serviceman is a good thing. “Of course, yes. There is this aggression written in the history of Russia. I do not talk about people, but the government is always,” he said. “It’s better to be a good armed country than to wait for something to happen. Because I’m a soldier who remembers the most important thing of weapons.”

From the end of the Second World War, eighty years, the poles are once again angry their neighbors. In a warehouse in southern Poland, popular demand, a company built a bomb shelter.

“These shelters are primarily designed to protect against a nuclear bomb, but also designed to protect against armed attacks,” said Janusz Janczy, the bed of the shelterpro bosses around the steel bunker with beds and ventilation system. “People don’t know what these shelters expect tomorrow.”

Janusz, Donald Trump’ın demand for shelters because he began his office, he said. “There were several phone calls in a month. Now there are several phones a week,” My clients are most afraid of Russia. They are worried that NATO will not come to defend Poland. “

If fear becomes a reality, are they ready to defend the country? A recent survey, only 10.7% of adults will volunteer in the war, they will join the army and will flee the third.

In a sunny afternoon Wroclaw, I ask Polish students to be ready to protect their countries if they attack. They say they do not. “The war is very close, but very far away,” said Marsel, “But if Russia attacks Russia,” I would run away. “

“If I was the first to try to escape from the country, another student, Szymon.” I just don’t see anything worth dying here. “

Additional report by Alexandra Stefanowicz