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Ukraine war: Russia declares "world's best" sniper dead - suddenly he gives an interview

2022-03-24T04:35:40.624Z


Ukraine war: Russia declares "world's best" sniper dead - suddenly he gives an interview Created: 2022-03-24 05:27 By: Patrick Mayer The Russian social media network "VKontakt" is rumored to have killed the "world's best" sniper "Vali" in a fight for Ukraine. Then the Canadian broadcaster CBC published an interview with him. Munich/Kyiv - Was this alleged message part of a disinformation campa


Ukraine war: Russia declares "world's best" sniper dead - suddenly he gives an interview

Created: 2022-03-24 05:27

By: Patrick Mayer

The Russian social media network "VKontakt" is rumored to have killed the "world's best" sniper "Vali" in a fight for Ukraine.

Then the Canadian broadcaster CBC published an interview with him.

Munich/Kyiv - Was this alleged message part of a disinformation campaign?

If so, it obviously went horribly wrong in the Russia-Ukraine war.

"Wali" is his incognito name, he is Canadian - and he is considered the "world's best" sniper.

He got this name after "Wali", a soldier in the Canadian elite special unit 

Joint Task Force 2

 , shot a high-ranking IS fighter in Iraq - from a distance of 3540 meters.

"World's best" sniper fights for Ukraine - Russia claims death of "Vali"

Recently, after Russian invading troops invaded Ukraine, he went as part of foreign legionnaires to confront the forces of Moscow's ruler Vladimir Putin.

But: Shortly thereafter, a week ago, the news of the alleged death of the Canadian ex-military man was spread on the Russian network

VKontakte

, namely "as soon as he arrived in Ukraine".

As the news portal

t-online

reports, a posting said he was “killed by Russian special forces in Mariupol just 20 minutes after the start of his combat operations”.

"World's best" sniper killed in Ukraine war?

Instead, he gives a TV interview

Or maybe not?

This Wednesday (March 23) the same "Wali" gave the Canadian news channel

CBC

at least one interview.

"Well, I'm alive," he said. "I know pretty well that I was the last person to know about my own death."

According to the report, which is available on the

CBC

News channel on YouTube, "Vali" did not fight in Mariupol last week, but alongside the Ukrainian armed forces in the greater area of ​​the capital Kiev.

Russia-Ukraine war: death reports about sniper "Wali" apparently wrong

"They used a lot of artillery fire," he said of the Russian troops: "You know, they just shot everywhere." He was only taken to a safe place on Tuesday after a week of fighting, he explained.

He was then able to look at his cell phone again for the first time, "through which he received numerous messages".

Relatives, friends and even former combatants from Iraq wrote to him because they heard the news that he was allegedly dead, he said in the video conversation.

However, CBC

confirmed that the interview is current.

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Source: merkur

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