All part of Putin’s piss-poor planning.
Putin chose the wrong corruptocrats to be in charge of his military and he spent many billions in the past decades to “modernize” their armed forces.
I think his “allies” spent the money elsewhere. Atlas shrugged.
Makes you wonder how the Soviet Army would have performed in the 80’s in a Western European war against NATO.
Thank God it never came to that but one has to wonder if Russia was always a paper tiger.