A paramedic stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are losing the war, at least technologically

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are currently losing the war — at least on the technological level.

This wrote Ukrainian paramedic Kateryna Zarembo on Facebook.

She agreed with assessments that there is no clear front line anymore, only a 10-kilometer-wide “kill zone” where Ukrainian and Russian trenches and shelters overlap, and where FPV-drone operators often take the closest positions to Russian forces, leaving them highly vulnerable to shelling and sabotage-reconnaissance groups.

In the adjacent 20-kilometer-wide strip of territory still under Ukrainian control, people are exhausted by constant attacks from guided aerial bombs (FABs), drones, and other weapons. For example, the Sloviansk–Izium highwayhas become a “road of death,” even though it lies more than 20 km from the front.

“All of this is happening because Russia is modernizing its technologies very quickly. At this pace, the gray zone will keep expanding — 30, 40 kilometers and beyond. Modified glide bombs can fly 100 to 140 kilometers and target Poltava region. There are fiber-optic-controlled loitering drones. I’m sure there are plenty of other developments I haven’t encountered yet,” Zarembo wrote.

She added that the situation has also worsened in Dnipropetrovsk region, where the Russian offensive is in full swing. In just two months, the town of Pokrovske, 12 kilometers from the front line, has turned into a ghost town, and Pavlohrad is now under threat.

“News coverage focuses on media hotspots — right now it’s Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad — so people think that’s the whole front. Headlines like ‘AFU push enemy back in settlement A, loose settlement B’ mean nothing to most people — they’ve never even heard those names. No outlet, alone or together, gives an overall picture. I wrote earlier about a new front in Dnipropetrovsk region, and since then the situation has only worsened. It’s a completely non-media direction where the offensive is advancing fast. I’ve been in the army since July, and I never imagined that a place we worked in would so quickly end up under occupation. The small, once-blooming district center Pokrovske (not to be confused with Pokrovsk in Donetsk region) became a ghost town like Dobropillia in just two months. It’s now 12 km from the fighting line. You can still drive there, but living there is impossible. The problem isn’t just, as some grimly joke, that soon we’ll be on duty in Pavlohrad — the problem is that if the pace of the offensive isn’t stopped, we’ll have to retreat from there too. From Kyiv it may seem that the war is still far away — believe me, it’s getting closer and closer. Add 20–30 km of gray zone to the battle line and count for yourself,” she wrote.

Zarembo also believes that the Ukrainian army’s potential advantage lies primarily in a technological breakthrough — both quantitative and qualitative — rather than simply in manpower.

Earlier, former Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi said that Russia is close to breaking the stalemate at the front through the use of small assault groups to penetrate Ukrainian defensive lines.