Via social mediaAs Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds into its 11th month, the Russian army’s tanks are in bad shape. The battalion’s commander, a Maj. Rasim Tagiev, got captured early in the wider war and spent four months as a prisoner of Ukraine before returning to his division. That battle represented a turning point in Russia’s doomed, six-week effort to capture Kyiv from the north and bring the wider war to a swift end. But if the sad state of the 2nd Motor Rifle Division’s tank battalion is any indication, the Russian army lacks the combat power to mount a serious, second attempt to capture Kyiv. But it at least is consistent with many other anecdotes from inside what appears to be a slowly collapsing Russian war effort.

Source: Forbes January 08, 2023 05:28 UTC