Desperate Putin calls up movie prop tanks to use in his invasion of Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has been forced to telephone up dozens of creaking T-55 tanks utilized by Russia's Hollywood arsenic props successful warfare films.

The service has raided the Mosfilm warehouses successful its desperation to invade Ukraine.

Desperate Russian president Putin thanked movie main Karen Shakhnazarov for the outdated Cold War subject hardware during a Kremlin meeting.

'We person handed implicit to the [Russian] Armed Forces 28 T-55 tanks, 8 PT-76 tanks, six BMPs (combat vehicles) and 8 tractors [that] we had stored astatine the military-technical base,' Shakhnazarov said.

'I recovered retired that determination was a need, contacted the Ministry of Defence and they took these vehicles. In short, these are our results.'

Putin acknowledged the value of the publication of the geriatric subject equipment. 'We are arrogant of Mosfilm - convey you,' helium said.

Shakhnazarov branded the determination 'charitable assistance' by the Russian movie manufacture to Putin's war.

The T-55 is simply a Soviet-made main conflict vessel archetypal produced successful the precocious 1950s.

It was known Russia had raided its vaults of pensioned-off tanks - and immoderate held successful museums - but the revelation astir utilizing the movie industry's postulation of aged crocks is new.

Shakhnazarov, 72, is simply a salient Russian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter.

He has been the Director General of Mosfilm, the country's largest and oldest movie workplace - aka Russian Hollywood - since 1998.

He publically backed Putin's drawback of Crimea from Ukraine successful 2014.

Ukraine mocked the usage of movie props, galore of which were decommissioned from the Red Army's Soviet epoch stocks.

'Having emptied the warehouses of Soviet weapons, the Russian service has taken into work fake armoured vehicles from the 1950s from the warehouses of Mosfilm,' reported telegram transmission Pravda Gerashchenko.

It branded Shakhnazarov a 'part clip propagandist' who 'announced specified a generous donation during a idiosyncratic assemblage with Putin successful the Kremlin'.