The first thing you need to understand about war is that your lifestyle will change. Whoever you work – a programmer, designer, copywriter, PR specialist, or a factory worker (are there any?) – everything will break with the outbreak of hostilities. From place of work, residence, wardrobe to your menu and habits. And if you live quite freely without glazed curds, then the lack of suitable shoes in winter will lead to sad consequences.

Let’s dot the i right away so that online specialists reading diagonally splash out less bile in the comments – it will still be needed for processing burgers.

Even during the war, clothing stores and supermarkets continue to operate, but the closer to the front line, the higher the prices, the worse the range and quality. No one bothers with the supply of good things, they carry the cheapest and often poor quality shoes and clothes. For a good one, most simply do not have the money.
With a high degree of probability, with the outbreak of war, you will lose your job. Therefore, it is better to buy everything you need in advance, while the costs are not so tangible for you.
The period while business and the state are being rebuilt on a military footing usually stretches for at least six months. At this time, everything will be very bad with the assortment.
Yes, you can travel closer to civilization and buy what you need, but moving out of a war zone is an extremely expensive pleasure both in terms of money and time. Nervousness and all sorts of risks when crossing checkpoints make you think 10 times if you need it.
War means a sharp rise in prices and inflation in general. What cost 100 rubles yesterday will be sold for 300 tomorrow morning.

Interstate

We also went through this. You can remember the year 1812. There were chances to survive, even in the Battle of Borodino, then. Fortunately, Napoleon did not have an atomic bomb at that time, otherwise it would not have been enough to burn down Moscow alone. It is possible to survive in a war without the massive use of nuclear weapons.

World

We passed this twice in the last century. Thousands of broken settlements. Tens of millions of dead and injured. Hundreds of millions of broken destinies. But these are “flowers” in comparison with what may happen in the future. World war will not do without the use of nuclear weapons. The existence of mankind will be endangered, and the temporarily survivors will envy the dead.

By 1941, the military and political leadership of the USSR guessed that the war could not be avoided, half of Europe was on fire. But the country was still not ready for it. Moreover, the residents were lulled by songs like “the armor is strong” and promises to “beat the enemy on its territory.” The result is known. The unpreparedness of the civilian population is one of the most serious factors explaining the sad results of the first months of the war.

Civil

And this did not pass us by. One of the most terrible types of wars. The fight against an external enemy unites the people, but here there is no foreign aggressor. And this is what comes out:

There is no rear in the civil war. At any moment, a man with a gun can rush in to you and claim the rights to your life and property.

You can get a bullet from a neighbor or even a close relative. In these troubled times, nationalists at once raise their heads, to whom mercenaries and other rabble, who want to make money on unpunished murders, join.
The army and power structures are also split, so they cannot be reliable defenders. The country is ruled by chaos and lawlessness.

How life changes during war

Contrary to the romantic halo created by the series of recent years, fighting does not bode well. A calm and measured existence, full of bright plans for the future, comes to an end. Survival becomes the main point.

In an instant, things that have not been thought about before become important. A lot of tasks need to be solved in a short time. How to preserve property, get water and food, contact relatives, find a safe haven?

People appear with weapons in their hands. Nearby explosions and cannonade are heard, announcements of evacuation and reports of the dead and wounded appear. And the main thing is the realization that death is near, and you do not know what to do. Hide? Run away? Wait for help or believe that everything will end quickly? It is good if there is a reliable advisor, but more often you have to rely only on yourself.

Two caveats are relevant here:

We are talking about those who found themselves close to the fighting. Those who live in the deep rear find it easier: the main nightmare is far away.
If June 1941 does not repeat itself, and the authorities are able to competently organize defense and evacuation, then there is no need to commit crazy actions. Do what is prescribed by the authorities and you will benefit.

Major hazards

If you are “lucky” to be in the front-line zone, then the first thing you will have to face is the deprivation of the benefits of civilization and comfortable conditions. The computer starts to lag, the cellular connection disappears. Water and electricity are cut off, sewerage is not working. Banks, shops, gas stations and cafes are closing. If there are no supplies, then thirst and hunger are the next problems. All this will take place against the backdrop of the main threat – close hostilities. Everyone is familiar with the consequences of the bombing and shelling from the reports from hot spots and newsreels.

Bombings bring fires and damage to vital communications. This leads to the next catastrophe – environmental. Violation of sanitary standards, uncleaned corpses, breeding rodents and lack of medicines lead to epidemics.

The next problem is looters. The danger is not that they will rob you, but that they go to work with weapons. Which they will apply without hesitation if they meet resistance. By the way, in front of people with weapons it is generally better not to “light up” once again, even in front of your military. Everyone’s nerves are on the hook, you never know what it will seem to them? In the best case, you can be interrogated or in the eye, in the worst case, you can be slightly shot.

And, finally, the invaders who entered the city. Someone, even during the Great Patriotic War, was lucky to survive with them. True, the percentage was extremely low. Therefore, it is better not to wait for them, unless you are an underground worker left by the “party order”.

What will happen if a nuclear war breaks out?

Imagine that one of the powers, initiated the launch of bombs and used a means of mass destruction against another country, similarly possessing atomic power.

After pressing the start button, for several minutes, the radars located on satellites in low-earth orbit will immediately calculate the approximate direction of flight, the coordinates of the air projectile, its speed and the approximate time of approach to the target.

The air defense system of the attacked state will release about ten interceptors towards the approaching threat and will try to shoot down the enemy element in the air.

Since there have never been any incidents involving intercontinental ballistic warheads carrying a thermonuclear charge, it is impossible to accurately predict the response of the attacked state.

Consider several possible scenarios for the development of the situation:

The missile defense of the attacked power successfully repels the attack and knocks down the warhead in the air. If the projectile was fired in the singular, most likely the commander-in-chief of the army that repulsed the attack will try to contact the attacking side and find out the reason for the sudden aggression in order to rule out an error or accident of the situation. Having received confirmation of the randomness of the launch or, on the contrary, the declaration of a military conflict, the army leadership decides on retaliatory actions.
Volleys of the aggressor were launched deliberately from many points, some of them penetrate enemy air defenses and reach their targets. Depending on the power and number of bombs, certain consequences occur for both parties to the conflict.

If the total power of the ammunition that reached the targets did not exceed 200 megatons in TNT equivalent, but the volume of the exploded explosive came very close to this mark. Today, such an attack, without the total destruction of the military and civil infrastructure, cannot be sustained by any country. Most likely, the state on whose territory such a volume of shells will be detonated pointwise will not be able to effectively resist, in the military sense it will be destroyed, a sufficiently large number of civilians will survive.
The total explosive potential has significantly exceeded 200 megatons (MT) and will be in the region of 500 MT in TNT equivalent. Such a bombing is capable of completely destroying states such as Israel, North Korea, England, France, Pakistan. In addition, the radiation from such a volume of shells detonated almost at the same time will cause colossal damage to neighboring territories.
The power of the applied thermonuclear potential exceeded 1000 megatons and more. There is an assumption that a one-time explosion with a capacity of over 200 million tons of TNT can displace the Earth from its orbit. It was this power that the well-known Tsar Bomba, which was developed in October 61 by order of NS Khrushchev, should have had. But a group of physicists headed by I.V. Kurchatov dissuaded the leader of the USSR from the idea of detonating such a powerful charge precisely because of the possible deviation and subsequent descent of our planet from orbit. As a result, the power of the explosion was approximately 60 megatons, which was the explosion of the most destructive force in the entire history of mankind. So thatthe detonation of 1000 or more megatons of nuclear weapons in a short period of time is fraught with the most dire consequences, both on the scale of any country and on the scale of the entire planet.

Most countries are armed with systems of inevitable retaliation. In Russia, for example, this system is called “Perimeter”. The essence of these systems is that it does not matter whether military facilities and infrastructure facilities in the territory subjected to sudden bombardment will be hit. Even if the command is completely destroyed, and the airfields are destroyed, then such a system as “Perimeter” will automatically release all the warheads remaining in the country at the enemy.

In this video, political scientist Igor Vertin will tell you what to do if a war has started in your city, all possible outcomes of events, what you need to be prepared for:

Who will initiate the confrontation?

With a 90% probability, one of the 9 member countries of the nuclear club will become the initiator .

Russia;
USA;
China;
Pakistan;
Israel;
DPRK;
Great Britain;
India;
France.

In recent years, the growing conflict of interests between countries promoting various political ideas and religious views has begun to be felt more and more sharply. So in the fall of 1962, the world was already on the verge of the Third World Battle, the impetus for the start of the confrontation could be a conflict situation between the eternal geopolitical rivals of the USSR and the United States, caused by the deployment of weapons with atomic warheads in Turkey.

The Soviet Union’s response was not long in coming, and a large number of Soviet warheads were deployed to Cuba at lightning speed at the direction of N. S. Khrushchev. Until now, this situation is still considered the most tense in terms of a possible start of the 3rd World War.

Moments in history that could lead to war

As for today’s realities, since the 62nd year, 5 more states have appeared on the list of owners of atomic weapons, which in fact is more than twice the number of such powers at that time.

The fact that many more countries have such weapons seriously increases the risk of their use. So, for example, the conflict between India and Pakistan in Kashmir in 2019 could well have caused a mutual exchange of atomic strikes, which most likely would have become the starting point for the Third World War.

Also, the aggravation of the confrontation between the NATO group and the Russian armed forces in Syria, when a Turkish F-16 fighter made an air attack and shot down a Russian fighter, the damage was serious, the plane fell, the pilot managed to eject, but upon landing he was shot and literally torn apart by terrorists. according to some sources, supported by NATO forces.

This incident, which occurred in 2015, caused extreme outrage in Russian society, the response of the Russian authorities was then to refuse to purchase Turkish fruits and vegetables and to ban their import into the territory of the Russian Federation.

Predictions by analysts and military experts

One of the most covered in the media conflicts related to the risk of using nuclear weapons was Kim Jong-un’s radical statements about an attack on US territory in Hawaii.

The intensity of the exacerbation was at its maximum in 2018, the year when the DPRK carried out successful tests of the Hwaseong 12 and Hwaseong 15 missiles, after which it announced that it now fully possesses a means of delivering nuclear warheads to almost anywhere in the world.

The opinions of experts on the issues of global military conflicts vary greatly. Someone argues that the likelihood of an atomic war is not so high now. The reason for this is the existing balance of nuclear forces of the two largest players in world geopolitics – the United States and Russia.

Regular improvement of air defense and delivery systems for nuclear bombs has led to the fact that with the advent of hypersonic missiles, rival countries have a situation where all types of existing anti-missile systems have become unable to repel an attack during an attack.

Since our government is not engaged in clarification, I will try it myself. In this article, I have collected advice from experienced people on what to do if a war breaks out. Real war.

There is a common myth that these days the war can be watched live. In fact, where the carnage begins, there is never television. There was no television in Grozny in either of the two wars, in Sarajevo, in Srebrenica, in Kosovo, there was no television, and in Syrian Aleppo there was none either. Where it is really bloody and dirty, television comes when everything is over to film mass graves or show from a safe distance how something burns and explodes. The real war is much worse than our (those who were not in the war) ideas about it. So, what to do if the war starts and you are in the city.

As always in life, there are different options. Today we will not consider the option that provides that you have decided to join the armed forces and participate in hostilities. Today, only about civilians ..

The main advice in the event of a war is to get out of the city as soon as possible.

Already on the first day of hostilities in the city, most likely, there will be no electricity, no water, no gas, no heat, no mobile phone network, no wi-fi, nothing that supports city life. All these things, of course, will not disappear at the same time, but in any case it will happen rather quickly.

The problem of survival begins immediately. How many days will there be enough food in your home? That’s right, a few. Shops and petrol stations will stop working on the first day, around the same time they will be looted.

Those who will have what to eat, what to drink, change for what is lacking, or, for example, for the right to pass through the checkpoint, will survive. If you go to the store, it is better to take your friends with you. Firstly, you can carry more products, and secondly, there is a hope that the loot will not be taken away from you on the way back. In the first days of the war, society still by inertia retains some signs of culture, and banditry, looting, the permissiveness of degenerates are not yet so widespread, but everything is moving quickly towards that, and therefore you need weapons.

One thing must be understood. There is no such thing as private property in a war zone. No one is interested in what was recorded in the Land Register or registered in the register of enterprises before the war. Now everything has been canceled because the war. You only own what you can protect. If armed uncles enter your apartment and say that they will now have a machine gunner’s nest or a sniper position here, do not argue.

Just get out of there, even if you are not required to. You don’t want to be around when this machine gunner is “covered” by the enemy. Don’t tell your uncles that this is private property or anything like that. Uncles are nervous, because they are being shot at, they have weapons, they are full of adrenaline and courage, do not quarrel with them.

The good news is that no one else also has private property, except those who have weapons and who can defend their own with weapons in hand. In other words, if the owner does not have a weapon, this is not his car, if the owner does not have a weapon, it is not his food supplies, and so on. A man with a weapon is always right. Never quarrel with a person who has a weapon. The cost of living in a war zone is getting very cheap. Remember this. Anyone can kill you, and he will get nothing for it. No one will ever look for a killer.

Therefore, you need a weapon, otherwise you will soon have no food, no drink, no wedding ring, no warm clothes, nothing that can help you survive.

Classically, weapons are obtained by robbing a police station. Usually, a black market immediately appears, soldiers earn money by selling something from army stocks, someone sells something from weapons legally obtained in peacetime. Remember you also need ammo. If there is an opportunity to exchange your mom’s jewelry for Kalashnikov, do it.

Best of all, if you manage to get some kind of pistol at the same time. If you run into a patrol, the Kalashnikov must be returned immediately, but you can hope that after you give the machine gun, they will no longer search you, and the pistol will remain with you.

If you are forward-thinking, you already have an arsenal legally obtained in peacetime. In wartime, this will immediately become a gold mine. I have friends who have an arsenal at home with which you can fight for a year and a half.

It is very important to decide where and how you go. Perhaps you still need to stay where you are.

Those with a battery-operated radio at home are in a much better situation than others. Some stations will definitely work, and some information about what is happening can be obtained.

You need to assess the geographic and strategic importance of your location. How important from the point of view of city control can be your street, your yard, your house, in which direction the fights will go, whether someone will control this area, whether there will be resistance here, what kind of character, and so on.

If there is a mortar position nearby, run away immediately, the enemy will definitely destroy it. And he will not shoot from a machine gun. If a sniper landed on the roof of your house, run from there. In Grozny, tanks worked in such houses. Nobody wants to hunt for a sniper. It is easier to demolish the two upper floors in such a house.

Understand that you do not want to be where the tanks will go and where the tank’s barrel will be directed. The power of a tank shot is incredible. Only one fragments from a tank hitting a building inflict mortal wounds within a radius of one hundred meters or more to everyone who did not find shelter. In some conflicts, in order to stop the tanks, the city used powerful high-explosive charges to destroy houses in the path of the tanks and thus stop them, drive them to a dead end. Once again, you want to be very far from the tanks and those trying to stop them. Remember, there is water in the toilet cistern that can survive for a week or longer.

Never rinse it off. It is no different in quality from tap water, but the water no longer flows from the tap, and the shops no longer work and are robbed. This water reserve is of great importance.

It is difficult to survive in the city. The areas of apartment buildings generally become a trap, among other things, the sewage system that does not work, waste, corpses in the summer increase the risk of various diseases, and in the winter, in turn, it is impossible to warm the apartments. It is very difficult to prepare warm food. The water brought from the river must be boiled; in such conditions, it cannot be drunk just like that. If you manage to get kerosene from the army, you can make an improvised tile, you can burn furniture, but sooner or later it is better to leave.

If you hit the road, you need to understand the army mindset.

The most important thing that everyone confirms is to look civil. If for some reason you put on camouflage, dress like Rambo and go outside, enjoy this moment, because, in fact, you are already dead. You will not even know whether the sniper or the soldiers of which side will remove you. In war, the one who looks like a soldier is a soldier, and one who looks like a civilian is probably a soldier too. You want to look as harmless as possible. Best of all, homeless people, with children in their hands and a white flag in a conspicuous place.

Hide the assault rifle under your jacket, if you got a Kalashnikov with a folding stock – ideally, if not, hide it anyway.

On the one hand, civilian soldiers are not interested. In Chechnya, even despite the intense fighting, those who did not suspect that they were soldiers in disguise – old men, women with children, etc., could almost calmly move around the city. Soldiers do not want to “shine” their position unnecessarily or waste ammunition to shoot a civilian who is simply fleeing the city. This is on the one hand. On the other hand, in the case of ethnic, religious conflicts, this is not always the case. This was not the case in Yugoslavia. In any case, if you run into a machine gunner’s nest, which is still being made and dug in, a group of saboteurs, they may decide that you are a risk, or an enemy spy disguised as a civilian, and therefore begin to “work” for you.

Therefore, if you see a soldier in the yard or in an empty house, in no case do not approach. Even if they look friendly, even if they smile and invite you in, leave. It is very likely that they want to call you only in order to quietly silence you. This is a war, everyone is nervous, many are paranoid, many with a pathological propensity for violence, which they finally unleashed, in many conflicts experienced units tried to “work out” civilians who could open their position. Remember that once the war has started, the Geneva Convention is not a set of laws, but only a description of the desired behavior. During the war, all kinds of degenerates, moral monsters and psychopaths suddenly surface on the crest of the war and finally begin to live at their own discretion.

Do not go near hospitals, where all sides are taking their wounded, and the shooting can start at any moment, some side will want to seize this strategic object only for themselves, and the losers will decide that if not me, then no one, and call artillery or aviation. Avoid former government agencies, any important infrastructure facilities – stations, communication centers, television centers, etc. Don’t go anywhere at night. The night is ruled by an army, bandits and marauders.

Army units in the city very often do not understand well what is happening and where the enemy is now.

Almost always, at some point, their own people shoot at their own people, and everyone always shoots at unwary civilians.

Remember, while you are in the city, there is a chance to steal fuel.

Gas stations are not working. Fuel cannot be obtained otherwise than from the army, but you do not want to contact the army, and they do not seek to help you, but in the countryside there will not even be where to steal.

Go on the road in the daytime (many advise you to go at dawn, when the night posts are already tired, and the morning ones have not yet woken up, slowly and calmly, as civilians do. By your behavior, let everyone clearly understand that you are civilians who want Take your time. The principle of creating a route is simple. The fewer patrols, the fewer checkpoints, the fewer contacts, the better. It is clear that the central streets, central intersections, bridges are better controlled, as they have strategic importance. that you know the city.

If you need to spend the night in the city because you no longer have your home, or you are stuck on the road, it is better to stay in the open air somewhere on the side of the road than to enter empty buildings in which there were battles or there was an army. Here each door can be equipped with a grenade. In such places, do not open the refrigerator, do not lift the toilet lid, and if a kitten meows in the closet or behind a door, do not save him, this is a classic trap.

The streets are often safer. In the capture of cities, nothing else has been invented except for two eternal strategies. The first is to first demolish half the city with artillery and aircraft, and then the direct seizure of house after house, from the first house on one side to the last on the other, as was done in World War II, including in Berlin. The second option is that tanks and armored personnel carriers first try to seize strategic points, gain a foothold on them, and thus create control over the city, as, for example, in Grozny during the first Chechen war. In the case of this strategy, there is a risk that the army units at these strategic points will be surrounded and destroyed, which the Chechens, by the way, did with the Russian army, turning the first capture of Grozny into perhaps the most shameful defeat of the Russian army in modern history. At the same time, the Americans in Baghdad acted that way. After the bombing, they simply drove into the city and began to fortify. Perhaps they knew that there would be no strong resistance or relied on their advantage in strength.

Be that as it may, in the first case, the cleaning of houses begins immediately. To make the attackers feel safe, they do not leave enemies behind, every house will be checked. And in the second case, too, sooner or later, the search for opponents will begin with a search of suspicious houses, districts and streets. It makes no difference whether it is Russians or Americans.

In cities where guerrilla warfare is going on, mopping-up operations are harsh. Clearing abandoned buildings is the most dangerous thing for soldiers, and they hate it, so it’s best not to be in such a building. If not the instruction, then the army wisdom says that if you do not want surprises, first throw a grenade into the room and only then go to see who “lives” here. And it will not be a noise grenade like in peacetime operations. However, the grenade is not the most dangerous. Hurry up to jump back behind a good sofa, reducing your “area” facing the explosion to a minimum, stretch out on the floor or hide your head and body behind a large backpack, behind some kind of flower pot, and if you are not completely naked, there is a great chance to survive. Another thing is that you can never know which frostbitten idiots will now enter the room. Therefore, it is better to sit on the side of the street with a white rag and let everyone command you,

If there are victims on the streets, remember that it is strictly forbidden to touch or turn them over. The grenade under the corpse, too, unfortunately, has become a sad classic in all recent conflicts. If you can remove the weapon or cartridges from the deceased without turning it over, do it, but you do not need to search it more thoroughly. If the dead man has a communication system, contrary to what was seen in the films, do not take it. Most likely, you will not hear anything understandable and useful for you here. Moreover, you are civilians. You have to look like a civilian. There will be a walkie-talkie, there will be a desire to tinker with it. A civilian with a walkie-talkie is no longer a civilian. And hide the weapon, of course.

All modern cities have a roundabout path. Usually there is the border of the environment. For motorized rifle brigades, the standard behavior is to disperse along the roundabout routes and block the city. There will be checkpoints, control and the like.

Approach them slowly and with your hands up. Do not think to somehow sneak through the forest, short dashes or something like that. In military conditions, every suspicious movement in the forest is a sufficient reason for a machine gun to start working. Pay attention to the soldiers’ weapons visible in the photographs from Crimea. There are a lot of Pecheneg machine guns and a lot of modernized Dragunov sniper rifles with a short barrel and a folding stock, as well as “Vintorez” and classic Kalashnikov machine guns, as well as automatic rifles. Many examples of this weapon, as can be seen in the photographs of journalists, are equipped with the most modern sights (Aimpoint Micro T-1 and Eotech 512, which cost from $ 500 – $ 700 per copy). You don’t want these people to start shooting in your direction. Go to the checkpoint with your hands up. Most likely,

Now you are out of town. They say that every Latvian has his own country house. Happy are those who really have it. If there is also a cellar in this house with potatoes, other foods, pickles and preserves, then you will most likely survive. The main task is to protect your home from bandits, looters who want to take all this away from you. It is not difficult to defend against one or two bandits, but it is already difficult to withstand a dozen. Moreover, they have already trained during this time. They know how to assess your strength, go around from the flanks, and so on. However, you have time at your disposal to prepare traps, obstacles, barricades for them and turn your family and friends into a small military squad. Again, weapons are very necessary, if they are not, we recall the Middle Ages and we will have different strategies. The thug who was poured with a bucket of gasoline and who understands what can now flare up, most likely, at some point will be “on pause”. Your defense must be aggressive and strong so that the marauders decide to go to another, easier target. The army, most likely, is not interested in your country house, so there is a chance to wait out the active hostilities and then see what happens next.

Now comes the most important thing.

If in peacetime you make at least some elementary preparations for a rainy day, it will be very helpful if such a day comes.

First, consider all evacuation routes and methods, considering backup options. Best of all, make sure that there is a place in the village. If not for yourself, then with some friends, relatives, acquaintances. They do not need to object, together it will be easier to defend their place from bandits and marauders. Here it is necessary to store elementary supplies of food, fuel, medicines. Pasta is a great invention of mankind, unlike flour and various cereals, worms do not start in them, they have a long shelf life and high nutritional value. If you can find high-quality canned food, it’s fine in general, they will be more expensive than money, and if there are chickens and a cow on your farm, and there is a river nearby where you can fish, then this is generally a five-star place to wait out the war. Don’t forget to just arrange shifts. Someone needs to stay awake at night and so on.

While you are in the city – always try to keep the gas tank in the car as full as possible. During the Chechen war, Snickers was especially popular. Small, light, on four or six bars, a soldier can live a whole day. Comes in handy along the way.

Keep an emergency backpack with everything you need at home. Picking tips can be found here and here. If you can afford it, buy a bulletproof vest, it’s not that expensive. One that can be worn under a jacket. He will save from shrapnel and ricochets, and, possibly, from a pistol or revolver shot from some idiot bandit.

A bulletproof vest will not save you from a Kalashnikov or a sniper. If the vest is good, it will stop the bullets, but the energy generated by them is still so great that the vest cannot extinguish it, and the injuries of internal organs received upon impact are usually incompatible with life. Of course, it depends on how far away they are shooting at you.

The topic of wounds is the most painful. Perhaps everyone should be able to distinguish venous from arterial bleeding. In the first case, you have several hours of time, in the second, you will lose consciousness after 20 seconds. It’s good if someone has time to put on a tourniquet. It’s good if the tourniquet is at hand.

Wounds change everything. You go back and trudge to the very hospital, which in other circumstances must be bypassed by a roundabout road.

We will not deepen these scenarios today. I hope I have outlined the main directions that need to be considered in such a situation.

War is blood and dirt. Real rubbish. Full ass. Much worse than described here. Let’s hope that idiot politicians, extremists and degenerates of all sorts will never bring us to this.

Do not panic!

It is not necessary to prepare for war in advance. Such actions can cause psychological discomfort. However, everyone should remember that extreme situations periodically occur even in peacetime. To keep abreast of what is happening in the world, listen to radio more often, especially news programs. Be attentive to the operation of notification services. When a danger arises, the population is notified in a timely manner.

Panic becomes the main enemy of a person in an extreme situation. In an unusual environment, you lose your familiar landmarks, which leads to the emergence of this feeling. It is not only during hostilities that it is dangerous to experience panic. If you consider yourself a person easily subject to panic attacks, try to cope with your complex on your own or with the help of a psychologist before extreme circumstances arise in your life.

Keep this in mind

Is war possible in the near future? This question is unlikely to be answered unequivocally. History knows cases when a seemingly inevitable armed conflict never took place. Wars often broke out when no one expected them and was not ready for them. If you nevertheless find yourself in the epicenter of hostilities, remember some rules of conduct that can save your life:

Hearing the sounds of shots, you must immediately find cover. It may be a large object closest to you that can withstand the onslaught of shelling, such as a brick wall. You should not run or just move quickly. The people who opened fire are looking for a moving target. Having found shelter, you need to take the pose of an embryo. Thus, you organize additional protection for the internal organs and the face. It is forbidden to leave the shelter until the end of the shooting.
If the shelling caught you in the apartment, you should lie down on the floor and wait for it to end. You cannot approach the windows, try to see what is happening on the street, or shoot the shootout on camera. You can be injured or killed by a stray bullet.
Armed people can break into your home and declare their intention to organize a firing point. It is not worth hindering their actions. Try to leave the room as soon as possible and hide in the entrance, with neighbors or in the basement.
In some cases, you will have to evacuate from the combat zone yourself. Take only what you need with you: a supply of food and drinking water, a first aid kit and any medicines that you usually use. You should also have some hygiene items (toothpaste, toothbrush, wet wipes, etc.), a change of linen and warm clothes. You should not try to take all your valuable things with you: household appliances, antiques, etc. You will have to part with what is dear to you in order to save the most valuable thing – your life. You can and should take money, documents and jewelry made of precious metals with you. All this does not take up much space and will certainly come in handy on the road.
Don’t wear military camouflage. Keep your hands in sight. If you do not comply with these requirements, both sides of the conflict can open fire on you, mistaking for an enemy spy.

Knowing what to do if a war breaks out, a person is able to act much more effectively in situations that are unfamiliar to him. Endurance and the ability to keep a cool head will prove to be no less useful than a stock of food or a first aid kit.

Do not buy a tourist backpack, an ordinary urban backpack of 20-30 liters will be more than enough.

Be sure to try on your backpack before buying, make sure the straps are comfortable and have wide shoulder pads.

Try to choose a backpack without laptop compartments: it is extremely unlikely that you will have an urgent need to carry a laptop on trips, and a special pocket with protection will only steal a useful place. Two or three compartments on double-sided locks are quite enough: into a small one you unload small things like keys, a knife, a bandage, hydrogen peroxide, a handkerchief, toilet paper, a lantern, documents, a notebook and a pen, the main thing remains for things.

An abundance of pockets is also useless – just spend extra time on searches and checks. The strength of the material and its impermeability are much more important. Backpack straps on the chest, which allow you to run with much more comfort, are highly desirable.

Knife or multitool

No huge cleavers with stops and knockouts. A simple folding knife with a minimum of functions, but made of good steel and with a non-slip handle. By and large, you only need a knife and a can opener. If your budget allows, you can look towards multitools. But even there, you need extremely minimalistic options from a knife, opener and pliers. Keep it in your backpack among the rest of the little things, and then it will not raise questions during checks.

Lamp

An absolutely irreplaceable thing, especially in conditions of a regular lack of electricity. Ideally two. One wearable, small, but bright and power-hungry enough to light the road for an hour. Better on batteries – always carry a spare with you. And a large home lamp on a battery with the ability to recharge from the mains.

In both versions, it should be possible to place it on the end (flat bottom) with a light beam in the ceiling to illuminate the entire room, a lanyard mount and several brightness modes.

First aid kit

I would not advise you to stock up on a large number of medicines, especially if you do not have a clear understanding of what you can use after the expiration date. But make sure you have 3-4 packs of bandages, cotton wool, hydrogen peroxide, iodine or green stuff, analgin, aspirin, paracetamol, activated charcoal, a thermometer, ammonia and ethyl alcohol.

Put the bandage and peroxide in your backpack, let them be with you at all times.

In principle, in conditions of hostilities they get sick a little. The body seems to be mobilizing, and it is difficult to catch a cold or other illness, if you don’t try hard. Payback comes during periods of relaxation and truce. Then people’s health crumbles like a house of cards.

Warm jacket or down jacket

The emphasis on winter clothing is made for a reason. In peacetime, any of my movements in winter came down to the need to walk 10 minutes to a public transport stop or take a taxi. If I wanted to take a walk in winter, I knew that at any moment I could go to a cafe or shop and warm up. In the distant peaceful past, I wore a cashmere coat, trousers and patent leather boots, and I, like many, were quite comfortable.

In a situation where you have to spend from 4 to 48 hours on the road with a high probability of long walks or spending the night in an open field, tastes in clothes and the entire wardrobe in general require rethinking. Getting sick in the absence of heat, medicine and doctors is a rather dangerous occupation for health.

When choosing a jacket, be sure to take a warm sweater with you and try on it. You shouldn’t be cramped.

If the required size is not available, feel free to give preference to a slightly larger one. This helps to keep warmth and moisture better.

Good zippers, a large insulated hood, spacious patch pockets with flaps (preferably with Velcro), internal pockets (with zippers) for your phone, money and documents – all this should be in your jacket. Add to this a high collar with padded lining (to hide the face from the wind), adjustable cuffs (to prevent snow from clogging) and, of course, waterproof fabric.

Many jackets and down jackets look good at first glance, but they turn out to be unwearable due to getting wet. Rain and snow or a short entry during a snowfall into a warm room – and your clothes get wet to the skin. Take a bottle of water to the store and make sure the fabric repels moisture.

Try not to wear bright colors and eye-catching designs. You do not have the task of attracting too much attention, you are not a tourist.

Escape from the city

Consider what to do if a war breaks out. If you have a family, it is advisable to leave the city in the very first hours of the outbreak of hostilities. Relatives must be taken out, at least to the dacha, where there is a supply of food and water. If you manage to break free, then, having filled up, you need to move on.

The vehicle should only be used as a last resort, as it is a favorite target. You need to move slowly, no more than 60 km / h. Then there will be less suspicion. When a military convoy approaches, you need to pull over to the side of the road, stop, stick your hands out the windows or a slightly open door. Don’t look the military in the eyes. If the convoy goes in the same direction, do not try to overtake it!

Retreat routes should ideally be worked out in advance. But if not, then the goal is the nearest evacuation point, where it will be possible to transfer the family into safe hands. If you are not sick or elderly, then it is unlikely that you will be evacuated with your relatives. But the main thing you will do is get rid of the “train” and now you can take care of yourself.

If it was not possible to leave the city in a timely manner, then this is not yet fatal. You will have to leave through the checkpoints. And if there are enemy ones among them, then forget about the car right away. If it is not riddled, it will be confiscated. Wrap things with a white sheet so that you can see that a civilian is walking and off you go.

Pass the checkpoints slowly with your hands up. There they will take away the values that they find. It’s a shame, but the main thing is to save life. Do not try to carry weapons and ammunition with you. The maximum is a knife, the presence of which can be explained.

Escaping from the encirclement, try to reach the “house in the village”. If you don’t have one, then look for a place in nature where you can hide, get food and water. Ideally, this is a forest with a lake or river. There you will rest and think about further actions.

Keep your distance from military units or other important objects (factories, power plants, etc.). They don’t expect you there with the orchestra, they have enough of their own to do. But the fact that shelling or bombardment of this area can begin at any moment is an objective reality.

On the way, you will probably lose everything that you took with you in exchange for a distance of 5-10 kilometers. But it normal. Behind the ringed city in which hell begins.

Survival in the city

It is difficult to survive during a war in any city, especially in a metropolis where there are not enough food supplies, and no one is going to distribute it as humanitarian aid. Stores will work only for the first time, it is important not to miss it and to be stingy to the maximum. It will be even worse with water. It is necessary to fill all the containers, and if the water supply is turned off, then even save the water in the toilet cistern. Not borzhom, of course, but enough for a week.

Do not leave the shelter just like that, idle curiosity is worth your life. Come out only during the day. Avoid walking near military units, hospitals, television centers, and other government agencies. These are strategic objects, therefore, they are attacked in the first place.

Having stumbled upon an enemy sabotage group on the street, run away. Even if the fighters smile affably and want to “just talk”. They will be stabbed, as their survival depends on secrecy and lack of witnesses. The scouts are unlikely to shoot after them, they cannot attract attention.

Do not go into empty buildings, there you will find stretchers prepared for the enemy. Or, when clearing abandoned houses, soldiers often launch a grenade in front of them before entering the premises. Do not touch abandoned things, they can also be mined.

If you are in an apartment and a shootout has begun, do not hang around the windows. Turn off the light in an instant and fall to the floor. Crawl behind a sofa or bulky furniture. During shelling, the algorithm of actions is the same, but it is better to have time to reach the bomb shelter. If you find the shelling on the street, find a cover. A funnel, a ditch, a high curb – anything that will save you from bullets and shrapnel will do.

If the military came to the apartment, explaining that there will be a firing point here, then you need to dump in silence. Objections are pointless, besides, the point can be “covered” by the enemy at any moment. In general, there is no concept of “private property” in the war, so forget about real estate. Fighting is necessary only for food and drink, and then if there is a chance.

Outcome

This list could be expanded, but you cannot make supplies for all occasions. It is impossible to guarantee that on the very first day the shell will not destroy your house or apartment, and with them all the lovingly collected supplies is impossible. Even the most stubborn gadgetophiles and perfectionists, who suffer from the wrong color watch strap or painfully choose a feng shui table, take a year to look at things and the world much easier.

Don’t get hung up on choosing the best things. Just buy what meets the requirements – life itself will lead you to the right ones. Peace!

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