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The Polish government is planning to send every household in the country life-saving crisis manuals to prepare them for emergencies including biological, chemical and nuclear threats.

Russia said on Tuesday that it still had an emergency hotline with the United States and the NATO military alliance to deflate crises as nuclear risks rise amid the gravest confrontation between Moscow and West since the depths of the Cold War.

Kamala Harris, the U.S. vice president and Democratic presidential candidate, has warned that Vladimir Putin “could set his sights on Poland and the Baltic states”, if he is allowed to win in Ukraine.

Finland has seen increased threats to subsea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea area in recent years, the Nordic country's Environment and Climate Minister Kai Mykkanen said on Friday.

The Kremlin said on Thursday that changes to Russia's nuclear weapons doctrine outlined by President Vladimir Putin should be considered a signal to Western countries that there will be consequences if they participate in attacks on Russia.

Vladimir Putin has issued his strongest nuclear threat to date after announcing planned revisions to Russia’s nuclear doctrine.

The NATO airbase in Geilenkirchen, near Aachen in western Germany, operated under heightened security last week after foreign intelligence warned of a potential Russian sabotage attempt, as reported by the German Press Agency (DPA) on Monday.

Poland’s defense minister has called for ‘political unity’ in the face of what he described as the ‘greatest threat to Polish sovereignty since the end of WWII.’