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Sweden upgrades wartime shelters amid rising tensions with Russia

The Igeldamms car park in Stockholm might look like an ordinary underground parking lot carved into the rock, but it can also serve as a public shelter for 1,200 people in the event of military conflict.

As tensions with Russia have grown since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, Sweden’s government has pledged to boost spending on civil defence by seven times.

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