Vladimir Putin has once again stepped up air defenses around his remote palace, where the mad dictator hides out with his secret “wife” and his two sons.
A fresh ring of steel has been thrown around the Valdai Fortress, the dictator’s main home during the war – and it is now better preserved than most Russian cities.
According to new research, the bunker is now surrounded by 27 modern air defense systems radio Freedom.
At least eight new air defense towers have been installed in the four months after Putin falsely claimed Ukraine had attacked the luxury hideaway.
It is believed he lives there with secret alleged lover, Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, 42, and their two sons, Swiss-born Ivan, 11, and Moscow-born Vladimir, six.
A Ukrainian attack late last year targeted other buildings in the Novgorod region – but Putin tried to tell Donald Trump that Kiev wanted to attack him and his family.
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Western and Ukrainian intelligence reported that the Russian dictator’s claims were false – even the US President disagreed with Putin’s cry.
But months later, the paranoid Kremlin dictator has again tightened his defense following rumors that Kabaeva has refused to live in the palace.
The fortress, 230 miles northwest of Moscow, is believed to be equipped with its own nuclear bunker and hospital.
In 2024, there were only seven air defense deployments protecting the Valdai complex – now their number has almost quadrupled.
The majority of the current 27 placements are believed to be Pantsir systems – each costing up to £16 million.
But there is at least one S-400 system, which is understood to have cost up to £800 million.
Sophisticated radar systems also protect the palace and family, which he never told the ordinary Russian people about.
The total cost of the equipment protecting this Putin palace is more than £1 billion.
According to the report, there are only 100 air defense positions in the entire Moscow city of 20 million inhabitants and the surrounding area – and even fewer in other Russian cities.
The Valdai complex, spread among forests and lakes, includes a main house and a separate residence for Kabaeva and children.
In December, ukraine A long-range drone strike hit the Akron chemical plant – key to Russian explosives manufacturing – in Veliky Novgorod, 85 miles from Valdai.
In a desperate false claim, the Kremlin said more than 90 Ukrainian drones were directed at Putin.
According to top Russian journalists, his young son is hiding under the surname Spiridonov, and is educated by outside tutors. schools.
The kids are the keen young gymnasts who have been seen in the explosive footage.
Spiridonov appears to be a family name linked to the first name of Putin’s colorful grandfather, Spiridon Putin, who lived from 1879 to 1965 and died on his 86th birthday.
Spiridon was the personal chef of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and, before preparing meals for dictator Joseph Stalin in the Kremlin, he also cooked for his widow Nadezhda.
Previously, he had served the notorious mad monk Rasputin while working at the famous Hotel Astoria in St. Petersburg during the Tsarist era.
Ukraine claimed in February to have destroyed half of all Russia’s Pantsir air defense systems.
Putin’s relationship with Kabaeva began after the dictator broke up with another of his secret mistresses, 50-year-old Svetlana Krivonogikh, the mother of his beloved child, 23-year-old Luiza Rozova.
The project said: “At approximately the same distance from Putin’s and Kabaeva’s homes is a huge spa complex with a solarium, a cryo chamber, a 25-meter swimming pool, a hammam, a sauna, a mud room, massage bathrooms, cosmetology and dentistry areas.”
The investigation revealed a “continuous presence of children in the residence.”
“In the summer of 2020 and 2021, a small karting track was installed on the site of the former helipad.
“And right next to the residence, a large yellow and blue children’s playground was built in the deep forest between 2016 and 2020.”
Putin uses his “personal armored train” to travel to his lakeside hideout.
“For this reason, a secret, protected station was built near his residence,” the project reported.
