Four out of ten Germans have already started to accumulate emergency reserves out of fear that Russia might attack Germany.

Due to war rhetoric and warnings about the escalation of the war in Ukraine, a possible war between Europe and Russia, 46 percent of Germans are worried that Moscow may launch an attack on their country, according to a recent survey V4NA .

In an INSA poll conducted for BILD, 1,001 people were asked about this, and 44 percent of the respondents said that they are not currently afraid of Russia attacking Germany.

According to the survey, the supporters of the left-wing parties were the most worried, 55 percent of them, closely followed by the supporters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Supporters of left-wing and right-wing populist parties — Sahra Wagenknecht's newly formed anti-immigration Left Party and the right-wing, conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) — considered a Russian attack the least likely.

Meanwhile, the survey also revealed that

Four out of ten Germans (39 percent) have already started stockpiling emergency supplies in case war breaks out.

Worryingly, only one in six respondents said they knew where to go in an emergency. The paper noted that this is likely due to the fact that none of Germany's 600 air raid shelters

It is not surprising that the fear of a possible attack is growing among the German population, as several senior officials have spoken about the need to prepare for anything in recent weeks.

Boris Pistorius recently spoke about "it's not about preparing for war, it's more about expecting it". The German Minister of Defense stated in a television interview that

If we have to prepare for a danger that we don't know when and how it will occur, then it is better to arm ourselves.

But a German military document leaked this month also warns of the possibility that Moscow could take advantage of the transition after the upcoming US presidential election to move to seize the Suwalki Corridor, a strategic, sparsely populated area on the Lithuanian-Polish border that separates Belarus and separates the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

As reported by V4NA, the voices warning that the danger of a Russian attack has increased have become louder in other countries.

Jacek Siewiera, head of the Polish Office of National Security (BBN), warned at the beginning of last December that the Eastern NATO countries should prepare for a possible confrontation with Russia in the next three years, as the threat is much greater than previously estimated.

And recently Carl-Oskar Bohlin, Sweden's Minister of Civil Defense, called on his compatriots to mentally prepare for war at a conference. "Many people have said it before me, but let me say it officially: there could be war in Sweden," he said.

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