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Inside paranoid Putin’s armoured ‘ghost train’ with ‘mobile hospital to treat his cancer’ as he races between bunkers
LEAKED photos have revealed the interior of Vladimir Putin’s luxury armoured “ghost” train - complete with an onboard mobile hospital.
The paranoid dictator, who is thought to be moving from bunker to bunker, is travelling more and more by rail during his war against Ukraine due to fears of assassination.
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The armoured train - currently undergoing a £60 million upgrade - cannot be tracked in the way his plane can, and from the outside it resembles other services used by his compatriots.
Inside it is different - Putin rides in style in his extraordinary train, fit with a bathhouse costing £3.75million, and a gym and cosmetology salon.
The train has Putin’s “anti-aging machines” as well as a lung ventilator, defibrillator, and a patient monitor - “in other words - everything you need for a portable ER”.
And the medical equipment may come in handy, as it's rumoured Vlad is ill with a disease such as cancer.
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And shockingly, it's all paid for by the Russian taxpayers who know nothing about it, says the report.
Rail expert Dmitry said: "It's not a simple luxury, it's a super luxury.
“A shower, a full-size toilet, a phone, a gigantic Panasonic TV, DVD, and VHS players — just to name a few.
“Everything is finished with natural wood, some State symbols are present."
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The armour coating the outside of the seemingly normal train is Level III+, meaning it can withstand shots from AK-47s and SVD rifles.
The train carriages also have loopholes to return fire if the train was attacked.
Some rooms are also protected against eavesdropping, including the cosmetology room.
A cosmetology room has "hardware protection from the leakage of acoustic information".
The upgraded version will include a train cinema and a new health carriage - perhaps an indication that Putin’s health is less than perfect.
Putin has been rumoured to be receiving chemo, according to leaked Pentagon documents.
Rumours of Putin's failing health have been swirling for months and the topic has remained a solid source of speculation within Western intelligence circles.
leaked to The Sun Online last November appeared to confirm that the Russian leader has both pancreatic cancer and early stage Parkinson's disease.
Sources also claimed he had emergency surgery last year and was shadowed by a team of top doctors.
“There is a ghost train on the Russian railway,” said Mikhail Korotkov, а photographer who emigrated under pressure from the security services.
“It can't be found in any timetables or public systems.
“Its windows are curtained, the locomotives have no numbers and identifications….
“All the other regular trains move out of the way for it.
It has a Grand Service Express logo on the sides, and the plates always show the same route: Yevpatoria - St. Petersburg.”
Putin is known as “The Chief Passenger” on a train which can deliver him to his Valdai Palace or his Black Sea cliff top £1 billion Gelendzhik retreat - both equipped with nuclear bunkers.
The Dossier Centre researchers sifted through 25,000 pages of documentation to establish links to the construction of the train and its maintenance.
It can travel at 100mph - but not any faster due to the weight of its armour, which can some of the carriages carriage weigh up to 100 tons.
A special communications system keeps Putin in touch with the world - and enables him to watch his believed propaganda channels on TV without interruption even when he goes through a tunnel.
Funding is via Putin’s oligarch friends including Yury Kovalchuk, one of his closest cronies.
Earlier this year, it was revealed the reason Putin travels by train rather than plane is because he fears it being shot down.
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Ilya Rozhdestvensky of the Dossier Centre said earlier this year: "The psychological reason of using this train is that he’s scared.
“He’s scared that he can be tracked, that his plane can be tracked, that his plane can be shot down.”
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