Over the past almost one year of fighting there have been many humorous cases of Russian failure, such as the high tech drone that was destroyed by a lady lobbing a jar of food at it from her balcony, the farmer who towed a tank away with the crew still inside and they had to jump out, etc. But my favourite is still the village who took down four Russian tanks with just a pair of flags, for those who weren't here at the time it basically went down like so:
- Four Russian tanks enter a Ukrainian village, the villagers watch carefully from a distance.
- The Russians transfer all the remaining fuel from two of the tanks into the other two, then pile into/onto those and leave, leaving the two empty tanks in the village.
- The Villagers plant Ukrainian flags on the two empty tanks.
- The other two Russian tanks return with fuel, they see the two "Ukrainian" tanks and open fire destroying them both.
- The remaining Russian tanks then drive around searching for their other two tanks.
- One of them drives onto a bridge with a five ton weight limit and the bridge collapses, the tank falls into the river below and they all die.
- The last tank keeps driving around, gets lost, and finally gets stuck in a ditch.
- The Russians then abandon their last tank and walk off.
Russian training at it's best