FEARS Vladimir Putin is preparing for nuclear war are growing as forces loyal to the Russian leader have been preparing bomb shelters in a Moscow district.
With Putin’s faltering war in Ukraine there are worries the desperate president could launch a nuclear strike on the West.
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According to reports from Telegram channel Baza, work on approximately 900 shelters began in Moscow.
Shelters are constructed with sleeping areas, benches, and cupboards. They are also equipped with drinking water.
City workers are performing the work at an “active pace,”The report asserts.
The leaders of the municipality insist that shelters be organized “by yesterday”.
Other areas of Moscow are also being worked on.
According to some reports, the Khamovniki district already has 30 shelters. These shelters have been renovated and are equipped with first-aid kits, lanterns, benches and other essentials.
Many shelters are in poor condition and will require renovation.
According to the report, one of the shelters was radiation-proof.
Shelters can also been prepared in orphanages and Family Education Assistance Centres.
Basements are being equipped with electricity and water as well as being stocked up with food and wood.
In case of an emergency, field kitchens will be constructed and installed in the yards.
Separate reports by Podyom, a Russian news website, claim that Moscow authorities are also inspecting bomb shelters in schools or hospitals.
One unnamed source told the outlet: “Nobody gave us a specific order [on paper]They did not tell us verbally, but they said that they had instructions for getting the bomb shelters working.
“Right now, in four schools in the centre of Moscow, we’re preparing the sewage drains and installing electricity.”
It was previously revealed that the outside of the sports centre had been used for training. “Extreme”Signs directing people to the basement and Moskomsport on Hospital Val had been posted.
Employees at the centre claim that the signs were placed under management orders.
This news comes just a month after it was revealed that Russians were buying bunkers to protect themselves from a possible nuclear war.
Authorities also gave orders to a housing cooperative for the evacuation of a bomb shelter in the area that is being used for cars.
It was stated in the instruction that it must be “brought into line with the direct purpose of a civil defence facility”.
Moscow city government is demanding efforts “to increase the readiness of collective protective means”.
And the head of a homeowners’ association in the capital was summoned to the police and told “there was an order to check all bomb shelters”According to the IStories media outlet.
Similar orders have been reported in Sochi (Black Sea resort), Volgograd region, Buryatia republic.
Russia has a total of 16,448 nuclear bomb shelters, according to the country’s Accounts Chamber, mostly built during the Cold War when such facilities were a Soviet priority.
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