Why Ukraine’s elite snipers, and their U.S. guns and ammo, are more vital than ever in the war with Russia
by CBSnews
Why Ukraine’s elite snipers, and their U.S. guns and ammo, are more vital than ever in the war with Russia
by CBSnews
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With additional U.S. funding for Ukraine suspended in Congress, the money Kyiv currently has could last just a few months. That’s making it more important for Ukraine’s military to lean into less expensive means of defense against the invading Russian forces, and one weapon that can be extremely cost-effective for any army is a sniper rifle in the hands of a sharpshooter.
Given access to the secretive world of Ukraine’s elite snipers, CBS News watched recently as American bullets from American rifles cracked through the air near the front line on a battlefield in eastern Ukraine.
The sniper unit was training. They always work in teams of two. A spotter checks wind speed and range for the sniper, who then carefully adjusts his angle. Then, between heartbeats, he fires, hitting a target nearly a quarter of a mile away.
“Commissar,” the sniper’s callsign, laughed and called it “very easy” as he walked toward the target to check his shot. His uncle was a sniper, too. Commissar told CBS News he once hit a target at 1,715 meters, which is just over a mile away.
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If you want to support Ukrainian snipers specifically, there’s no better way than donating to Yuri Chornomorets. He was a professor at the Kyiv University before the war and then took up a sniper rifle when Russia invaded and drove out Russians from Chornobyl.
He’s basically patron of snipers in Ukraine and is doing amazing stuff on getting bullets, rifles, educating new snipers, developing doctrine. Fantastic guy.
I forgo a couple of coffees and a lunch per week and make sure to send to him.
https://x.com/Y_Chornomorets
Paypal: lauby@meta.ua
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/chornomorets
This is a great overview of his thinking:
https://twitter.com/Y_Chornomorets/status/1705574248880693409
It’s probably like “shoot the duck” on those occupied territories in most cases. Mixing mostly conscripts as bait from their colonial states and trained ones for counter sniping ops.
I heard a real sniper saying they work mostly like spotters, not snipers. They shoot maybe during one out of 5 – 10 missions (after even a single successful shot, a massive artillery strike is usually called on their general location, and the sniper has a big chance of being killed).