As Andrii Biletskyi, the commander of the 3rd Assault Brigade, said, Russian forces have become more powerful in the field of radio-electronic warfare and drones and have plenty of high-quality artillery, but the regular ground forces of the Russian Federation are actually an obsolete component.
Biletsky indeed made some racist statements in 2006-2010, but he changed his views and hasn’t made a single racist statement since 2014. Azov batallion included several Jews from the very beginning, so Biletsky now isn’t an anti-Semite.