On board Putin’s ghost practice, a rolling bunker with an ‘artwork deco’ lounge and bulletproof armor


The practice has a gymnasium, a magnificence salon with machines for anti-aging therapy, or a health care provider’s workplace outfitted with emergency provides. Since the beginning of the invasion, Putin has used this practice greater than the airplane, since it’s harder to trace than a airplane. The investigation was feeds on interviews and greater than 25,000 confidential paperwork from Zircon Service, the corporate that has operated the practice for years

Armored and luxurious. This is the ‘Putin Express’, the ghost practice of the Russian president, which has change into one in all his personal bunkers because the begin of the struggle.

An investigation by Dossier Center in collaboration with CNN, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Norddeutscher Rundfunk gives particulars about this convoy, which features a gymnasium, a magnificence salon with an anti-aging therapy machine or a health care provider’s workplace outfitted with emergency provides, from a defibrillator to displays cardiac or synthetic air flow machines.

The practice additionally has a eating room profusely adorned with ‘artwork deco’ furnishings and noble woods, adorned with nationwide symbols.

Putin Dossier Center practice eating room

The investigation attracts on interviews and greater than 25,000 confidential paperwork from Zircon Service, the corporate that has operated the practice for years.

The revealed data states that since 2014, 1.45 trillion rubles (14,598,000 euros) have been allotted solely to upkeep work on the practice. In whole, the practice has ‘eaten’ greater than 65 million euros in upkeep.

Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin has elevated using his personal practice. He feels secure in it.

Ilya Rozhdestvensky of the Dossier Center says there are “psychological causes” behind the rising use of the practice. And that cause is that he “is afraid that his airplane might be monitored and shot down,” he informed CNN.

Train Gym Dossier Center

In addition to the convoy, the Kremlin has organized a community of stations and secret connections for the unique use of the practice, equivalent to these in-built 2015 in Novo Ogaryovo, on the outskirts of Moscow; in Sochi (2017) or in Valdai (2019). The ghost practice doesn’t have identification numbers, nor does it seem in any information of the Russian railways.

Medical workplace on the practiceDossier Center

The practice additionally has armor proof against impacts from AK-47s or SVD projectiles. It additionally has parts that permit you to set up machine weapons to repel assaults. The wagons have been conditioned with inhibitors to keep away from leaks and eavesdropping.

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