Putin is hiding from Ukrainian drones in an armored train and using fake motorcades
Vladimir Putin has stepped up security measures in the wake of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian territory. According to The New York Times, the Russian president is increasingly using a special armored train, and his security detail may deploy decoy motorcades to conceal the Kremlin leader’s actual whereabouts.
Sources cited by the publication claim that convoys of cars traveling through Moscow that appear to be presidential may be a diversionary tactic. At the same time, Russian television continues to use pre-recorded videos featuring Putin, passing them off as current footage.
According to a defector from the Federal Security Service, Putin began avoiding air travel shortly after the war began and has since preferred to travel by rail. A special armored train, disguised as a regular Russian Railways (RZD) train, is used for his transport.
Putin has turned his attention to defending Russia’s eastern borders with the United States and Japan.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called the visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin—the leader of an aggressor state—to the disputed Kuril Islands “absolutely unacceptable.” According to Russian state media, this was his first trip to the archipelago. Putin visited Iturup Island, known in Japan as Etorofu.
Russia has been systematically training future drone operators starting as early as elementary school. Another example of this policy was demonstrated to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin during his trip to the Russian-occupied Kuril Island of Iturup.
