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Latvia will spend at least 98 million euros ($105 million) over 2024 and 2025 on the project. The 3,120 planned hideouts will accommodate up to 200 people each, while the 12,490 planned bomb shelters will protect up to 100 Latvians each. The full project will ensure that the new hideouts and bomb shelters will help keep as many as 1.249 million Latvians safe from Russian or other hostile missile attacks. Latvia has a population of 1.879 million, meaning the new shelters will protect nearly two-thirds of the population. The Internal Ministry has identified how to fund the project, including usi…