They are just hoping that they can prolong the war by a week or two.

Maybe, just maaaaybe they will be lucky and something happens that makes the west force Ukraine to cede all of the currently occupied territory to the Orc-Roaches. The only thing the Russia can do is to try to prolong the war and hope for an act of gods.

They don't think, because they'll be sending these to be destroyed by drones too.

Not to mention that MASSIVE anti-tank stretch Ukrainians have been building behind the lines.

So as per usual Russian military heads are making another stupid move.

They built about 25k T72s, but those were built a while ago and not maintained. The last estimate I saw that seemed credible was that there were about 6000 T72s left. Let's say 1/3 are unusable, 1/3 are good for parts, and 1/3 can be repaired. That's still 2000 tanks - 20 more months of war, during which anything can happen.

Not what I heard, I thought these turtle tanks were unstoppable! Did the media totally overhype them in coverage and lean into a panic about it? Doubt it, no, that can't have been what happened, tanks must be obsolete and russia is smarter than us!

attrition, they're assuming the other side will give up before they run out.

Training? They're just grabbing any warm bodies at this point.

Driving isn't that hard to train, I don't even need to have driven one to tell you that. not getting stuck because you can't see is a little harder. Using them effectively in war is even harder. But just driving in an open field - I doubt it needs more than a few hours.