Early in the war Russia had a habit of re-making all the mistakes from early WW2 with their tank use - often sending armoured columns unsupported into bottlenecks making it all too easy for the Ukrainian forces, they've tightened that up a bit now but are still using tanks in isolation quite often for "recon by combat" kind of manoeuvrers which are highly exposed to Ukrainian special forces and mines, etc.
A lot ultimately depends on the quality of the tank commander and/or driver though - sure its Battlefield 4 but I wish I had some footage from some of the games I was riding as gunner on tanks with a good commander/driver - some had impeccable positioning, timing and awareness, etc. and could operate with an extraordinary long life expectancy in situations bristling with hostile anti-tank equipment that the average player would just get blown up in immediately (EDIT: That is something which comes from a mixture of innate skill and 100s of hours of experience - not something you get with people sent into war with barely 2 weeks of experience on the hardware they are operating and having maybe fired 1-3 real rounds against static targets :s).
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