Photo gallery – Ukraine, from the museum to the front: Moscow thinks of a new life for Soviet tanks
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The Russian military could use 1950s-era tanks to make up for the huge armor losses it has suffered since the invasion of Ukraine began. This was written by the Conflict Intelligence Team, an open-source organization based in Tbilisi, as reported by the Kyiv Independent website. The study center has announced that Russian forces have transported a shipment of T-54/55 tanks to western Russia from a depot in Primorye in the far south-east of the country, and it is speculated that they may use these vehicles in Ukraine.
Moscow’s Soviet tanks, from the museum to the front in Ukraine? Soviet T-54 and T-55 tanks “rest” in museum halls or armed areas of Russia, which, according to intelligence sources, could again be “conscripted” by Moscow for the Ukrainian front.
These designs were introduced in the years following World War II, and by the late 1950s the T-54 had become the main battle tank of the Soviet Army’s armored units.
In particular, T-55 tanks were used by rebels in Lebanon and are currently “circulating” in Syria. While the T-54s, which can also be admired in a tank park in St. Petersburg where families gather, have been entering Russo-Ukrainian war scenarios since 2014. Some of these models had actually been photographed on the streets of Donetsk, in the Donbass, in the summer of 2014, being driven by pro-Russian militants who had brought them from the open-air museum of World War II to the same eastern Ukrainian city to be used against the Kiev army.