this is the luxurious version of ‘Rail Force One’ in which Putin travels incognito

Putin owns a most luxurious train than any other, more even than the Ukrainian Rail Force One that Biden traveled with during his visit to kyiv. The Dossier Center, a Russian research center based in London, has revealed that he cost at least 6.8 billion rubles (60 million euros) to build the Putin railway, which has a full gym, turkish sauna, bar, cinema and even a Aesthetic Center.

Although the Russian President’s train has remained as a closely guarded state secretwith officials of the Kremlin denying existence of luxury carriages, recent research carried out by the Dossier Center in collaboration with , Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the German public channels NDR and WDRhas discovered new information about the extravaganzas of the train.

The Dossier Center has obtained Photographs, blueprints and thousands of internal documents from Zircon Service, the company in charge of maintaining the train, revealing that the railway is made up of 22 wagons. According to the center’s report, eight of these carriages are dedicated to technical purposes, housing communications centers and satellite equipment, while the others 14 are destined to provide a space for Putin can relax, have fun and take care of his health.

For example, the aesthetic center of the train is equipped with a massage table and high end beauty equipmentincluding a radio frequency machine used to fight aging, according to internal documents from Zircon Service. The revelation of the beauty center has fanned the rumor that has been circulating for a long time in Russia about the Putin’s alleged “obsession” with his appearancespeculation that intensified in 2010 when reports surfaced that Putin had undergone plastic surgery.

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the train too have a gym equipped with a weight bench, hyperextension machine, step platform, gym mat and dumbbells up to eight kilograms. According to the Dossier Center report, Putin’s security team, the Presidential Security Service, had specifically requested that the gym included exercise equipment for “train thigh muscles“.

Furthermore, due to the Putin’s health concerns and the extreme measures it has taken to self-isolate since the Covid pandemic, train employees must undergo quarantine before working in his presence. Gleb Karakulov, a former engineer and captain of the FSO, told the Dossier Center: “People are always ready for they are already ‘clean’ and can go with the president when he is on board“.

The design of the train also focuses on ensure Putin’s safety. According to the Dossier Center report, all the walls, doors and windows are armored and bulletproof and the wagons are protected by systems to block eavesdropping and espionage. Also, it has been implemented specialized hardware to encrypt telephony and internet all over the train

However, according to the discretion is not as effective as Putin believes, as it has been engaged by train enthusiasts who managed to detect it and have shared photos and comments of the enigmatic “ghost Train” on social networks. In addition, journalist Ilia Rozhdestvenskiiauthor of the report for the Dossier Center, told Newsweek: “The armor of the train does not offer protection against serious threats; it only protects against gunshots. And the special communication systems installed inside the train are hopelessly outdated.”

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In any case, according to Karakulov, since the second half of 2021, when Russia was preparing for the invasion of UkrainePutin has increased considerably the use of his train, and it is likely that he will continue to do so given the internal and external threats that his regime has faced in recent years.