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Young and old, men and women, parents and children, they've all come here for one reason: to learn how to survive an armed attack.

As well as a turn on the shooting range, this Saturday morning programme, called "Train with the Army", also teaches civilians hand-to-hand combat, first aid and how to put on a gas mask.

"The times are dangerous now, we need to be ready," says the co-ordinator of the project, Captain Adam Sielicki. "We have a military threat from Russia, and we are preparing for this."

Capt Sielicki says the programme is oversubscribed, and the Polish government now has plans to expand it so that every adult male in the country receives training. Poland, which shares borders with both Russia and Ukraine, says it will spend almost 5% of GDP on defence this year, the highest in Nato.