What You Need to Know: 3 Key Points - Russia’s Mosfilm, the country’s largest film studio, has donated Soviet-era military vehicles to aid the Russian military amid ongoing losses in Ukraine.

-The studio supplied 28 T-55 tanks, 8 PT-76 tanks, 6 infantry fighting vehicles, and 8 tractors, many of which were maintained as props for historical films.

-Mosfilm has a long history of producing war epics like Alexander Nevsky and War and Peace, and its collection includes military uniforms, small arms, and over 190 armored vehicles.

-The donation underscores Russia’s reliance on outdated equipment, as its modern tank fleet has been significantly depleted during the conflict in Ukraine.

It almost sounds like something straight out of a movie; the largest and oldest film studio in Russia donated dozens of Soviet-era tanks and assorted other armored vehicles to the Russian military. Mosfilm, which was founded in 1924 as a production unit of the state-run film industry, provided the films to the Kremlin earlier this year.

Earlier this month Mosfilm CEO and chairman of the board of directors Karen Shakhnazarov met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the state of the studio, its projects and........

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