>>64033959 (OP)They do still occasionally make armored assaults.
But it's only the "elite" units that get assigned such vehicles, such units tend to scrape together about a dozen armored vehicles to make monthly suicide assaults which inevitably end up getting destroyed.
It seems russia still has a somewhat significant number of armored vehicles but most of them (especially the "new" production ones) seem to be used primarily for training and internal policing.