Baltic Companies Seek Ukrainian Bomb Shelters as Russian Drone Threats Spill Into EU Airspace
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Updated · POLITICO Europe · May 26
Baltic Companies Seek Ukrainian Bomb Shelters as Russian Drone Threats Spill Into EU Airspace
2 articles · Updated · POLITICO Europe · May 26
Baltic companies have approached Ukrainian defense manufacturers and civil protection experts in recent weeks to discuss buying bomb shelters, according to Ukrainian industry executive Ihor Fedirko.
Those talks are being driven by drones from the Ukraine war increasingly straying into EU airspace and by fears that Russia could extend its aerial threat beyond Ukraine.
Fedirko said the Baltic states, as small countries, are looking for the most effective ways to protect civilians if Russian aggression reaches them.
The outreach shows how Ukraine’s wartime shelter and civil-defense experience is becoming a sought-after export as security concerns deepen across Europe’s eastern flank.
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