Secret Trains, Fake Offices: Inside Russia's Plan to Hide Putin

Very important leaders like presidents sometimes need to keep their movements secret to stay safe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin does this more than almost anyone else.

He has special offices in different houses that look almost exactly the same, so people cannot tell where he is.

Reporters noticed that plants in his offices changed in surprising ways.

That showed some meetings on TV were filmed on different days than the government said.

Putin also rides a special train that looks like a normal passenger train, but is strong and protected.

It has a gym, a spa and special phones, and uses secret railway stations.

The government sometimes shows old recordings of meetings days later, as if they were live.

Since the war with Ukraine started, Putin has become even more careful about hiding where he is.