Two Russian army T-72 tanks collided during a botched assault in eastern Ukraine last week.

It’s a sign that Russian training standards continue to slip as the Kremlin struggles to make good the more than 300,000 casualties its forces have suffered in their 23-month wider war on Ukraine.

“Complete stupidity and incompetence,” is how one Russian blogger described the recent assault in a missive translated by wartranslated.

The tanks were part a company-size element that attacked the Ukrainian garrison in Novomykhailivka, 10 miles west of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Jan. 30.

The grouping included three T-72s, seven MT-LB armored tractors and a single BMP-2 fighting vehicle.

The assault got off to a bad start, when—a couple of miles from the front line—two of the T-72s collided, disabling one of the tanks.

The rest of the vehicles proceeded with their attack, only to come under fire from Ukrainian artillery, anti-tank missiles and explosive FPV's

Source Forbes.

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