If you're advancing with a wall of hundreds of tanks all moving towards the enemy, sure. Sending one tank with no infantry support into minelandia on the outskirts of droneville is... Well, they could do better.
If there’s one thing that screams “the sanctions aren’t making a difference,” it is
(I mean US soldiers have done the same thing with armoring up their humvees and gun trucks in the field in various US wars because they weren’t suited to the reality on the ground, so maybe I shouldn’t talk)