If your first-rate military is losing ground to Isis charges in pickup, you're not a first rate military... If anyone has said Russians would get encircled 6 months ago they would get laughed out of these forums.
Not really. You can have the best trained and equipped army in the world but you can still get zerg rushed away if your positions are undermaned, then it becomes a point where its just better to cede and regroup rather than waste manpower holding ground you might lose eventually if you can't reinforce them in a sensible amount of time.
Case in point, the US in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Or are you going to pretend the US wasn't pushed out of A-stan by a bunch of jihadis on pickup trucks either?.

Which should also point out what would be the point of wasting manpower on such rushes as Ukraine is down when you also have to hold the ground in a likely counteroffensive?
An Ukranian T-64BV gets shot at very short range by a Russian T-80BV. No idea on date or location
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