Russian forces 'have never actually used tanks in the correct way since the invasion,' one expert told Newsweek.
Russia has lost more than 4,000 tanks since the start of all-out war in Ukraine last February, Kyiv's military said on Tuesday.
Moscow has been beset by organizational and planning failures, ruptures in the command chain, poor training and unmotivated troops after the best were wiped out in the first waves of the war, leaving few to train the next generation of tank crews, analysts say.
Whatever the exact figure is, it still represents a substantial hit to Russia's armored capabilities. And experts have repeatedly pointed to the same problems plaguing Moscow's forces since the beginning, which they say are continuing to contribute to mounting tank losses."Ultimately, this was a failure of planning," Arnold said.
These are examples of tactics that"competent commanders would avoid at all costs," according to Paul van Hooft, an analyst at the HCSS, toldDue to the mistakes of the early operations,"any elite tank crews were taken out in the early part of the war," de Bretton-Gordon said.
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