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‘Rail Force One’: how Ukraine railways got Joe Biden safely to Kyiv

Alexander Kamyshin, head of the service, doesn’t get much sleep, but his team coordinated the president’s visit without a single leak

Alexander Kamyshin, the head of Ukraine’s railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, doesn’t get much sleep at the best of times. On Sunday night, as Joe Biden was being ferried into Ukraine in a 10-hour night journey from Poland – in a carriage now known as “Rail Force One”, he got almost none.

Along with others involved in the secret operation to bring the US president to his meeting with Volodmyr Zelenskiy, Kamyshin watched the progress of the train in a command centre.

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