London | Moscow is dusting off Stalin-era tanks – some first deployed more than 70 years ago – and shipping them west, possibly a sign that battlefield losses have led to a shortage of armour for Moscow’s forces in Ukraine, evidence from open-source researchers shows.
Photographs obtained by the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) show T-54 and T-55 tanks from the 1940s spotted aboard a train departing from Arsenyev in the Primorsky Krai region of Russia’s far east, heading west. Russia’s 1295th Central Tanks and Repair Storage Base is in Arsenyev.
