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Officials and locals are ready should Lithuania be dragged into the Ukraine war, and a sense of resilience dominates.

The basement is full of food supplies and other useful stuff,” he said, stroking his cat. “The worst case scenario is a large war in Europe and there are some indicators it could happen. When that happens, we have a barbecue and dance to the music that’s coming from the tower,” Irina Skučas, a factory worker, told Al Jazeera. “But when they closed the border to Russia, a lot of cheaper construction supplies stopped being transported from the Russian side. I don’t think you’d be safe if that were to happen.” “So why worry? We must make sure the military is ready. Simple folk like us really see it from a different perspective,” Gediminas told Al Jazeera. If the war starts, the war starts.” “It is somewhere in the Europeans’ DNA not to be afraid,” Andrul, who lives in the Polish town Suwalki of the Suwalki corridor, told Al Jazeera. “We take a swim in the lake just 10 or so metres from the barbed wire fence. “Everyone is using fear-mongering language on all sides.