WSJ "Russian military mobilizes even movie prop tanks to war"

The U.S. daily Wall Street Journal reported on the 21st local time that the Russian military is mobilizing tanks from the former Soviet era, which were used as movie props, to the battlefield.

The head of Mosfilm, Russia's largest film producer, reportedly met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow last month and said he would provide the Russian military with more than 50 military vehicles, including tanks built in the 1950s, which the production company had.

The military vehicle provided by Mosfilm was used by the production company for decades as a filming prop, and was donated to the production company by the Soviet Defense Ministry in the 1960s.

The return of the armored vehicles to the hands of the Russian military after more than 50 years of war is a clear example of how serious the current shortage of armored vehicles is, the Wall Street Journal noted.

According to Western officials and analysts, Russia has lost a total of more than 10,000 military vehicles, including more than 3,600 tanks, in the more than two-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine.

This is equivalent to the 15 years of production before Russia's war, and analysts estimated that the Russian military currently has more than 2,600 tanks.