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A Ukrainian sniper called the Ghost of Bakhmut says he's personally killed 113 Russians. He explains how his elite unit hunts the enemy.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ghosts-bakhmut-elite-sniper-unit-killed-558-russians-2023-9
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
On the outskirts of Bakhmut, a deadly team of snipers move stealthily through the forests and fields to take out Russian targets.
“It’s nothing like American films that romanticize the work of snipers and show it as very glamorous,” their commander, who goes by the call sign Ghost, told Insider.
Throughout the history of modern warfare, there have been stories of near-mythical snipers who take out scores of enemy targets with laser-sharp precision.
The shots are recorded electronically through the sights of their rifles, and the team continues to observe the target for three to five hours after a kill to make sure they are dead.
That distance is roughly three times the length of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and would place it among the furthest sniper kills in history.
In recent months, Ukraine has stepped up offensive operations around the city as part of its counteroffensive to take back territory occupied by Russia.
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