A Nottinghamshire man responsible for building Putin-proof nuke bunkers has said worried Brits have flocked to get their own shelter amid the escalating situation in Ukraine.
Matthew Wright had previously told the Star that his firm Burrowed had been inundated with requests since it was set up six months ago. Today, Matthew added that the number of requests usually “ebbs and flows”, but the past week had seen “three times” the normal number of inquiries to his company.
Rattled Brits have asked about the pricey bunkers – an underground shelter could set you back well over £100,000 – as the situation between Mad Vlad’s Russian forces and Western-backed Ukraine continues to escalate.
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Over the past week, the US approved giving anti-personnel mines to Ukrainian forces in the conflict, the use of long-range Army
Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles and Ukraine has fired UK-made Storm Shadow missiles at Russia.
Putin has also engaged in what Western officials called further sabre rattling as he lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike.
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Today, US officials said Russia did not fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Ukraine on Thursday, despite claims from Kyiv.
Matthew previously said: “People think it’s the fanatics and the doomsday preppers wanting bunkers but it’s just normal people who want to protect their family.
Matthew added today that his company could feasibility make group shelters if they were ever required in the future.
This year, investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen detailed the awful horror of what could occur in the event of nuclear war in her book ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’.
The book said a counteroffensive launched by the US president would mean that in just 72 minutes, five billion people could be wiped out.
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Jacobsen wrote: “This is the reality of the world in which we all live. The nuclear war scenario proposed in this book could happen tomorrow. Or later today.”
She added: “On top of the initial flash of thermonuclear light, which is 180 million degrees, which catches everything on fire in a nine mile diameter radius; on top of the bulldozing effect of the wind and all the buildings coming down and more fires igniting on top of the radiation poisoning people to death in minutes and hours and days and weeks, if they happen to have survived, on top of all of that, each one of these fires creates a mega fire that is 100 or more square miles and so.”