I'm afraid it's mostly the opposite, a death rate improvement. I can't find the publication with the official soldier death toll numbers - not that you can trust any wartime publication - but the second highest death toll was for Ukrainian drone operators. The highest still is for Starlink terminal operators, mostly soldiers too. I spoke with a few while they where under fire and we both where scared as hell that they would target the Starlink dish (it has two very unique radio signatures) while we where video conferencing with it.
Now its worse, the Russians also use them [1].
[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/11/ukraine-intelligenc...