WORLD WAR 3 WARNING: Sweden sends emergency guide to five million residents as fears peak

The advice booklet, titled “If Crisis or War Comes”, will be sent out to all 4.7million Swedish households by June.

It will updated giving advice on how to handle terrorist attacks and cyber warfare, as well as conventional war tactics.

Christina Andersson, from Sweden’s civil contingencies agency, which will produce the guide, said the decision to update procedures came as a result of intensifying Russian military manoeuvres in the region.

Experts believe Russia has rehearsed military drills involving the capture of Sweden, within the last year.

Vladimir Putin’s eastern superpower is also believed to have practised capturing former USSR states Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, as well as Poland, Norway and Finland.

Tens of thousands of troops amassed near the Belarussian capital of Minsk for the exercises in September 2017.

Analysts claimed the exercises constituted a “dry run” for a shock campaign against Nato.

There have also been reports of airspace violations by Russian aircraft in the Baltic and northern Europe.

While after Russian submarine activity peaked in recent months.

Moscow claims the ‘Zapad’ drills, in which Russia is believed to have rehearsed the capture of Sweden, were purely defensive. The Kremlin denies having practised invading any third group of countries.

But Ms Andersson revealed the “current security situation” worries Swedes.

The first edition of the booklet was published during World War II, when Sweden was neutral. It was most recently sent out in 1991, at the end of the Cold War.

As well as addressing the threat of Russian invasion, the 2018 edition will contain advice for nuclear war survival, and guidance on dealing with cyber attacks.