concerns whether any of that will help them remains uncertain, making the safety net of to charities and food things, not just helpful, but my poor. i'm without your up to date's up next. on the w close up looks at how poland has massively upgraded its military since russian has invited to ukraine. good. the votes. people have to say the that's why we listen to based on the reports every weekend on d w. the ok, that's what it's what transfer can you hear me? can you hear me?

yes, we're, we're, you hit dollars got better. okay, that's what i'm going to clean and it's the leg, the bandage on of the got it. that's the point. nice distributive or is unpredictable. it's better to be prepared if you want me to know what to do. if things ever gets serious, should know us thoughts. i'd like to say more and more people preparing themselves for the sort of situation that sort of when y'all went to beach the

. this is a rifle range in august of a town in northeast to poland. the president of the local gun club, the check troops, kosky is preparing the range for a public training session whole this semester. okay . okay, now we can shoot looking for everybody. yeah, check a 50 year old truck driver and gun enthusiast runs the club in his spare time. he personally instructs the club members twice a month. they get together to practice book ready, low they use live ammunition the

a this is what's, what's in the cuz the we're open to everyone. i'm not just members leads. if anyone can come along and see if guns are for them. but obviously, if you ask me, shooting is for everyone, i think the problem is everybody should try it out for boys. how much that munition do you want them to? how much is it? he said he is able to 5 slot a, a year to year with colleagues who wins that are turning. generally generally gets busy people. you have to wait in line with like in the old days under communism is that that's a fed as well as club members. with their own weapons, there are also a lot of new comers king to try shooting for the 1st time. demand pullman's rifle range, as is high under the construct enough search in the war. and ukraine has made us incredibly popular to the, the group of all, you know, since the russian aggression began to move, we've noticed

a significant increase in the mountains. so those is to hold you, especially from people who have no previous experience. yes. with weapons on 2nd row now. since the beginning of the war and ukraine, membership at the ghost of shooting club has more than doubled. the new members even include children, accompanied by their parents. poland has no age restrictions on small caliber weapons like that. southern tame lift, keep your arms straight, the cost of the damage of the city. when you finish to take a step back up and wait for the next command, they'll come in with all these emails and my timesheet, the or target provides items for the g. mostly it's father is coming with their children. cool by cool. i'll let this suppose boys and girls shifting the in some image. she more young, but my daughter actually machine when we grown ups have to somehow into still in the younger generation, the will to defend themselves young, but

a change it over on the phone. my son started in the scouts and they suggested we tried the shooting range and i wanted to see what it was like that nice. overall, i'm very impressed by that as a focus on safety and there's demand for it. lots of my friends have been shooting for a long time, but the recent political events have definitely prompted more people to take it up for shooting practice isn't folk something the state wants to encourage their plans to build more than 500 new rifle ranges and to make accessing firearms simpler. in 2022 weapons training was made compulsory for school children in the 8th grade. fears of a russian attack or driving poles to take up arms. yeah, checks the civilians with the right training have a role to play. you start with the automatic religion, physical males,

whole and it has a whole army of civilians who know how to shoot for on the brand new boys. gordon. 70000. yes. post the a wanted to sure. so they do it as a sports, but military weapons work the same way or your project when you missed precise one of them. there are the hunters so who so to some fund where basically are kind of silent, reserved for the farm. once they are in an emergency, we could quickly be ready to assist us to place the overall total into seeing a clear trend towards military preparedness. over on the most the end, it's not just citizens were arming themselves. since russia invaded ukraine, the polish government has spent around 14 and a half 1000000000 euros on missile defense systems, tanks and floor plans. new equipment is shown off to the public at so called military picnics around the country.

their plans to increase military spending to 5 percent of g d. p as well as to raise trip numbers from 164002300000. nowhere in poland. as the warfield closer than here in the foothills of the carpet and mountains, possession of the regional capital is less than 90 kilometers from the ukrainian border. the city has become a new nato outpost. it's airport is a hub for western arm shipments bound for ukraine. every day military aircraft arrived, carrying us air defense systems, munitions, and armored vehicles. the area is strictly monitored and filming is just about impossible. the

company on mosse or was born and grew up in j, suv. or the 23 year old hopes to join the army. soon since his school days, he's been a volunteer which tell us what a poll ins many paramilitary groups. since the war began, the organization has grown in popularity. they shall feel, but here's my still it stress uniform. we won't go over the phone, so hold on, check off. let's put them so missed on the miles and a little bit above i quoted ski florida or fios uniforms jackets or leases or 2 and a single loot of equipment like not just purchased and tactical bells or bus effected snack companies. that will keep the ball so it must cups. you've got helmet, a gas mask hearing protection for the shooting re. how should do it on the ocean officer needs at that phone to put you with this type of rate and calling to

minutes in on everything you need for a 1st aid kit that is likely to value the live across the thing up. that's x coming, elsie's, what he does as preparation for a career in the military. he's also joined up as a volunteer with the territorial defense force, a home guard that exists alongside the professional army, to select a possible thing with a stickler school. so i was wondering what to do with my life. josh means i decided that at some point i would like to join the army. if that's my goal, total beach in for me, it's about strengthening our country's potential. we've added security less of a kind of a bit, so i would tell us unless it, by simple shooting that little you pull a lot of the population. that's why i'm with stress that she was, i'm why i want to join the army some all once a month coming and goes to a barracks, to train with the territorial defense force he and does the unit also with says the regular army and securing the airport making coffee. yeah. want one. yeah.

coming and still lives with his parents and 2 younger siblings. his father has just come home from work right now alongside to tablets and his duties and the territorial defense force coming hardly has any time to spend with his family. people are you on duty again soon? question. yes, definitely. sometime this month like that about until i looked at the airport. yeah . so just look through that. will be the swab. the warranty crane has made judge of the same as wanting to know, could i, you know, yes, they're looking for cities, airport is now strategically important to the west. so i think he's nipple us and nato troops are stationed there. so there's always come out to be pushing and i'll get it on the kola, displaying a new important role as the echo the drugs constituent and not. so now we're part

of nato and it's 1st line of defense, human 0. and i was your, if push comes to shove, we'll be the 1st to be attacked and some of engine marietta she's always have to arm ourselves as she, when she moved to the right. and she's going to it also is i'll talk about why the buying russian has attacked ukraine. but are you not the who's to say there won't be a tax on other countries? so instead of putting you this, of course we're proud of, our son will thoughts. he's constantly on active service needs to know whether it's with charlottes or the territorial defense for. so it sounds like the territorial volunteers receive just under a $170.00 euros a month for their service, but they're not professional soldiers. a few weeks ago carmel applied to join the regular army. he's waiting to hear back many of comments friends also joins charlotte's while they were still in school.

and several are now in the army. he's meeting up with some of them to go bowling. so let's go in the that you nice, nice uh what about the for cumberland is friends. it's plain to see how the war has changed their hometown, whether in bars, restaurants or bowling alleys. american soldiers are now ever present. as well as a nato stronghold. joshua is also an important logistics held for the us army.

almost 5000 us military personnel are now stationed in the city. but they don't talk to journalists that's it. i'd say the americans are part of our everyday lives. like you're at the bowling alley. other thoughts of it, we have no real contact with each other. we don't make any sense of what the product is and they live in their world. and we live in our shop now, ms. floyd, some are already referring to joshua as the new ramstein, a reference to the us air base in germany. the city has become a symbol of colin's new strategic importance within nato. and the whole is getting a lot more attention now. that's also forcing us to expand our army to make it one of the best in europe, being smart, even in nato. like that's kind of impressed when i don't know if it's not all the,

the armed forces themselves or heavily promoting that expansion. since october 2022, the army has been offering free one day courses in some of the countries barracks. the sessions offer an introduction to basic military skills. here in warsaw participants have gathered at a military academy. first they get to witness a short demonstration by real soldiers, a simulated combat mission chase. a focus of today's demonstration gibson, impression of how combat operations are carried out to the squad leader gives the signal to the cadets. then carry out a patrol, track down, and eliminate the enemy easily to the one institution of the,

anyone between the ages of 16 and 65 can take part. according to the ministry of defense, there are more applicants than available sponsor. among those who have signed up our mag deborah don scott, and i'm going to ask of all yes, the 2 friends from warsaw heard about the training program on television just as soon taking his book on a good we live in such turbulent times about it's important to get some minute treat trainings on. yeah, sometimes hopefully we'll learn some basics. hey, i hope things that might be useful in the future. just got some of them to propose that. so that's just where we've never aside. guns will threaten grenades. and so as far as the baptist district, we're here to get a sense of it. so just to gain some completely new experience. again, the phone has a phone. in session i go nashika is a principal at

a primary school. my daughter is a fitness trainer. the 1st thing on their agenda is hand to hand combat. it'd be like just a futile like i quickly knocked the knife out of his hand and moved back. oh, was it? yeah, i don't know. i mean, okay, i'll hold it loosely. bravo. in groups of 8 to 10 people, they take part in various exercises, survival, training, piloting drones and weapons training. the instructors are season soldiers, most of whom have previously been deployed abroad. the website is very intuitive. there's only one way it works. on the right for me like this is quite heavy so that her put, it takes

a lot of practice due to me and i'll have some help. so they're kind of using the rifle is basically quite simple and all that they just need to memorize each step carefully as would be so you don't make any mistakes, isn't that every number that you all read? not pull this lever down. and the weapon is an automatic mode. here we can check whether there's a cartridge in the chamber. the most of the strap shouldn't be around my neck, right? so one is to say it's too short for you. it should be longer visit the cook. the say, it's a way of combining the fun with the practical, like a well, you have a good time, but you will say learn something new with the traditional, vague events effectively as possible,

and attractive georgia with nice weather and professionals who know exactly what they're doing and the ministry of defense is the courses are in response to ignore most popular demand. after russia invaded ukraine, the polish military was flooded with requests for training from both men and women . for how can i ask and mazda it's now time to learn the proper stance to use when firing a weapon, the rest of us. so that's good. this is the shooting position with my left leg slightly forward. it's just because the people do that. it's 10 foot highway, secure the weapon numbers pitts, i'm going okay. step 2, them pulled the box. i lower the rifling, remove the magazine, and put it away. step 3, i take a new magazine and pull back the lock and start over again.

i'm going to ask the unmarked, don't get to use like the munition just yet. instead they try out a simulator. we ship of all but it sounds well i really enjoyed shooting with hand guns to simulate to shows you exactly what mistakes you're making long. you've been not even more vulnerable to go to line. he's back on the talk here. i don't know how well prepared we can decide to say just a moment on the exercises like this definitely goes some way to helping us be ready if there ever were a conflict situation. sure. that my supervisee of the knowledge. i definitely encourage my friends to come along. he has already been know, calling that a good system and i've already decided to sign up to take part in the next quarter . so i'm, i'm in one place has become available. she typically invest the

programs official aim is to rouse interest and to attract applicants for either the army or the territorial defense force which offers logistical support to the professional army. the forces membership has increased dramatically since the start of the war, that as well as its proximity to ukraine. there was another reason that poland is strategically important for nato. this is the civil kick at a 17 kilometer long stretch of land along the polish lithuanian border. this is all that separates the russian exclaim of colleen and grad from bella. reeves, a close ally of moscow. it's seen as a potential achilles heel for the nato alliance. the atmosphere here is tens,

especially since mercenaries from russia's volunteer group had been stationed in deliveries. the shooting range in august of is just a 30 minute drive from the bellows in border so the good stuff is own simple every now and then we see military columns on the road here. let me in and it's a reminder that something is going on. so she should like, but we don't think too much about it and you know some of them and just keep you on, move it. jerome is full, you know, we focus on our role. the civilians come us for the keys from such a digital. the army has its own work to do, and we have hours to use the assessment. if anything happens, we'll be ready on the 1st move. remember, you're using a different weapon, but you have to adapt to share with us just when i used to the other ones that keep going last year. yeah, check also decided to join the territorial defense force,

which that's because this is a queen that has the old saying goes on. but if you want peace, you prepare for war. if you sit this, does he have a potential a dresser? see that poland does arming itself or when they see that we have more and more people who know how to use whether or not i agree is and that are firing ranges are becoming more and more popular, sort of insights that they might think. okay, it's not worth attacking paul, and tell us, tell us what's that? what sort of valuable stuff like down the thought was that you've used to moser, it doesn't say that can when you see how you create in civilians, have done their bit with around territorial defense for so the voice of both of them is also a motivation for us here in colorado, if it's moved to share it with most, i mean, it wasn't with us a 1000000 because vicki lugens, it shows that even ordinary people who aren't professional soldiers can make a difference. the meaning. months of i check with that often most i'm associated with probably just the,

the full body style good change, the smell of the. 2 the, the job of giving military training to polish civilians largely falls on parent military groups like charlotte's. the ministry of defense estimates that up to 100000 people of train which such groups. and that number is on the rise. 2 years ago, camille was still a new recruit. now he gets lessons on behalf of shell. it's once a week at his actual high school shut up, shut the sit down, but sure i said sit down and people just drop out score. we tell him alongside normal lessons, the school offers military training. it also promotes the local territorial defense

force to shut them up since our 1st topic is medicine on the battlefield, yet are tearing for the wounded. take all your medical equipment into backpacks with you up. let's talk you take the bags and wait in the car the door uh the check catch in the thought, oh nothing. we just looked up, ship them up. so we give the wounded person 1st aid and if possible, get them off the battlefield. is that clear as mellow that's the letter the put the bandage on to the point nice exhibit. delores unpredictable is better to be prepared to know what to do with things ever get serious that i'd like to see more and more people preparing themselves for these sorts of situations. he's a bit said i was gonna feel some sort of closest portraits up on the beach.

charlotte's is colin's largest and oldest paramilitary 3, but it was founded at the beginning of the 20th century ago before poland was a sovereign state. it was never part of the polish armed forces, but traditionally, the army has always looked to paramilitary groups like charlotte's to find recruits . so let's feel it. your role is to create the citizens folder and also military recruitment center as partners miss. yes, most of the people involved, we'll join the army at some point in terms of looking at the voice, cuz we don't train soldiers here. and i mean, your session wants that we turn young people into responsible and petri optic citizen. oh my gosh. the whole, that's our job and i just hope you're having said that we do see ourselves as part of the national system of defense of us. you might say, well, don't i get a bit higher? okay. it was officially vis a vis a vis i visited just as a 2nd young was manual. my parents are probably the best people to ask them about

who shallots a sheet to me, but as a uh, what's the product that i like you? but i do think it was my personality has changed how to show much, we'll get, we'll call them up like, you know, i'd like to, i'd become even more drawn to the military to higher ours upon the following orders sometimes provide you with the subpoena. most of and also the level of trust i think being here has taught me the true meaning of discipline for the richer the next morning, camille prepares for a military provide its armed force, the state. and he's going to take part in the parade wearing his shell and stress uniform. under all uniform connects us with previous generations who fought for our freedom so that we can live in an independent country today. let me just a moment. we can't take that independence for granted money. we have to protect it with me as care for the way you with a small child, but that which is shopping of us to say mind, yes,

cool. was the military traditions play a major role in poland? a country with a history of being invaded and occupied on armed forces day the battle of warsaw has commemorated the polish victory over soviet troops and 1920 parades are held throughout the country. it's also a chance for the nation to demonstrate its military readiness. apparent military troops, march side by side with the army. this will probably be coming is last time marching as a member for f shallots. but the army has accepted him and then a few weeks he'll be sworn in as a professional soldier. he can hardly wait,

though he's not allowed to reveal any details about the unit. he'll be joining the thing is up. so there are always a threat. suppose to of us that you have to keep an eye on everything we action and what type things to that will be the future of our army looks good and level of trust that we have a motor military that's moving forward. my sons, my journey began to show that i'm only about an hour will be serving and the polish army scheme, but yes, but for me it isn't that you all but surface being ready to serve means be aware of your g 3. you got the of, of, of things you'll sacrifice, but also of, of things you'll gain. what does this got you the coming on has no reason to worry about his career prospects. despite

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