The article omits salient points:
These LNR/DNR troops are forced conscripts dragged off the streets of their villages and towns - even handicapped were conscripted. Now there are few men left to conscript. The people who once supported the Russians, now hate them.
The 1AK & 2AK are commanded by Russian officers down to the company level.
Both AKs were given weapons from WWI or old WWII Soviet gear; recently they were given T-62 tanks (the generation after the famous T-34 and not all that much better). The troops were expected to die.
Both AKs were ordered to do frontal attacks on ZSU strongholds and fortifications. Basically, the suicidal attacks were to keep ZSU troops from moving to more urgent areas.
The RGF considers the two AKs completely expendable and, for that reason, does not track their losses.
“recently they were given T-62 tanks (the generation after the famous T-34 and not all that much better).”
Actually there were other tanks between the T-34 and the T-62 such as the T-44, and the T-54/T-55 series tanks.