Russian senator Rogozin, commander of an RF unit, stated there is a stalemate on the front in Ukraine

Russian senator and military commander Dmitry Rogozin has admitted to a “stalemate” on the front line.

He made the remarks in an interview with Russian journalists.

According to Rogozin, the Russian and Ukrainian armies have reached parity in forces and equipment, making any significant advance practically impossible. He said that all military hardware is destroyed within 20 kilometers of the front line, while infantry is also easily detected and targeted.

“Most of the war is fought at the tactical level — an assault group of 3–5 men, guys around our age, moving across open steppe that is completely mined, with drones buzzing from both sides. They’re loaded with armor, an assault rifle, ammunition, a shotgun to shoot down drones, plus electronic warfare gear. You can’t even get up from a chair with all this, let alone advance somewhere. And if any military vehicle appears within 20 kilometers of the front line, it will be destroyed — by us against them, and by them against us. That’s the stalemate, that’s the problem of positional warfare. The forces are roughly equal in equipment, training, and even motivation,” Rogozin said.

He singled out the Kherson region, where the Dnipro River adds to the difficulties. According to him, both sides destroy the enemy as soon as they approach the riverbank, making any attempt to cross impossible under current conditions.

“This morning I was again at my command post, I’ve got screens showing drone feeds. There’s burned-out Stepnohirsk (Zaporizhzhia region), nothing around but bare fields, no tree lines left. If a hare appeared, I’d see it — not to mention a person. How can you move through that? On what? Any vehicle will be blown up because all the roads are mined, by us and by them, remotely and otherwise,” Rogozin said.

For context, just days earlier, Andriy Biletsky, commander of Ukraine’s 3rd Assault Corps, said Ukraine is losing its technological advantage on the battlefield.