Top Canadian sniper now in Ukraine

[RVTECH]

You boys need to slip over to the ARFCOM site and review the Official Ukraine Conflict Thread.

1149 pages? That in itself tells me all I need to know....

 

[Andy54Hawken]

In my experience , sniping is best done quietly , and very low key.
Newspaper articles and the internet ain't the best at quiet and low key.
If I were to be doing this type of shooting...I damn sure wouldn't want any press or fan fare.
Andy

 

[VanceInWA]

Id like to see a modern day Simo Hayha "white death" wreak fear on the Russians, hows that for propaganda.

Yup. Seems Putin didn't read up on Russia's Winter War disaster against Finland, 1939-40. Now facing his own spring debacle. Those who don't learn from history are doomed to...

 

[DirectDrive]

In my experience , sniping is best done quietly , and very low key.
Newspaper articles and the internet ain't the best at quiet and low key.
If I were to be doing this type of shooting...I damn sure wouldn't want any press or fan fare.
Andy

Yep, there are a lot of "not very smart" things being said by .gov officials and in the name of news content.
Hopefully none of these very specialized rifles fall into enemy hands.

I also hope that the sniper teams can cause chaos at the various Russian fire bases.
That would be a big win.

Of all the weapons being given to the Ukrainians the S-300 SAM systems are critical to create a high altitude air defense.
The wild card is can the Ukrainians provide enough skilled personnel to operate all these systems ?
I see skilled "volunteers" filling the gaps to keep Putin bleeding.
Make him bleed enough and he'll have to go to the peace table.

For the Ukrainians to be holding back the Russian army for this long is truly amazing.
There are heroic Ukrainian actions happening every day that we do not hear about.

 

[zofoman]

Small drone warfare coming soon....switchblades and the smaller switchblade #300 that weighs only about five pounds are being/have been shipped. Won't be any safe quarter for a Rooskie over there.

 

[DirectDrive]

Small drone warfare coming soon....switchblades and the smaller switchblade #300 that weighs only about five pounds are being/have been shipped. Won't be any safe quarter for a Rooskie over there.

If they can get those 300's and 600's deployed it will be a series of bad days for the Russians.

 

[zofoman]

1149 pages? That in itself tells me all I need to know....

1172 and growing. Some direct reports coming in from the field that keeps the embers burning.

 

[Diamondback]

In my experience , sniping is best done quietly , and very low key.
Newspaper articles and the internet ain't the best at quiet and low key.
If I were to be doing this type of shooting...I damn sure wouldn't want any press or fan fare.
Andy

Becoming specifically known by name/face/distinguishable characteristics is a GREAT way to get the enemy to post a very large cash bounty on your head... and to tempt enemies and ersatz allies alike to try to collect on it.

 

[Flymph]

Propaganda. If they wanted a bunch of dead ruskies, they'd have been quiet about it.

Wondering how you can be an effective sniper and video blogger... especially if you're supposed to be a state sponsored guerilla...

 

[tinhorn]

I can' believe I typed "North easterner"
suffering from old timers disorder

Hahaha--I'm a regular at northeastshooters.com . (I'm a transplant from the PNW to the clown world known as Massachusetts.) You should come visit. The website, not the state.

 

[RVTECH]

1172 and growing.

I read page 1 and at the time, the last, 1178. I'm thinking everything in between says about the same.

 

[No_Regerts]

Wondering how you can be an effective sniper and video blogger... especially if you're supposed to be a state sponsored guerilla...

Hiding in plain sight....

 

[Siglvr]

Has he popped any melons yet?

The unconfirmed reports are that Wali was killed within 20 min. of going into action in Mariupol. If true, and it may not be, hopefully the idiot provided for his wife and 1 year old child before he left but I suspect otherwise.

https://celebritiesdeaths.com/death...utes-after-going-into-action-in-mariupol-ukr/


https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/03/16/wali-sniper-dead/

https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2022/03/18/6234a5ffca474192228b45e2.html

 

[DirectDrive]

The unconfirmed reports are that Wali was killed within 20 min. of going into action in Mariupol. If true, and it may not be, hopefully the idiot provided for his wife and 1 year old child before he left but I suspect otherwise.

This ^^^ report was declared Russian propaganda.
In fact the whole "Wali the Sniper" to Ukraine thing could be propaganda.

Propaganda vs. propaganda

 

[VanceInWA]

This ^^^ report was declared Russian propaganda.
In fact the whole "Wali the Sniper" to Ukraine thing could be propaganda.

Propaganda vs. propaganda

As they say, truth is the first casualty in wartime.

 

[VanceInWA]

 

[Siglvr]

This ^^^ report was declared Russian propaganda.
In fact the whole "Wali the Sniper" to Ukraine thing could be propaganda.

Propaganda vs. propaganda

Could be as it was the Russian that reported they blew up the area he was in. "Wali" was evidently sending back reports regularly before, have you seen any recently?

THIS---> https://greatgameindia.com/china-planned-taiwan-invasion/ is the kind of thing that is likely genuine Russian propaganda. They know the importance of Taiwanese chip mfg to the US economy, and putting this propaganda out would certainly lessen the odds that the US would want to tangle now with Russia in Ukraine and thus not be able to military fully respond to a Taiwan invasion by China.

 

[DirectDrive]

Could be as it was the Russian that reported they blew up the area he was in. "Wali" was evidently sending back reports regularly before, have you seen any recently?

1) For me, casual observer, it's a little suspicious that the Russians killed Wali 20 minutes after he got in country as was reported.
The odds of that happening seem to be off the chain.

2) If a sniper is going into an AO, he certainly doesn't want that publicized world-wide.
(unless it was for propaganda purposes)

Too outlandish for me to buy.
YMMV

 

[Siglvr]

Looks like you were right. https://archive.ph/4aUxH

The 40-year-old Quebec soldier, who asked that his real name not be used, left in early March to join Ukrainian forces on the front lines. He said Russians fired at him for three days, but that he had returned from his first mission near Kyiv unscathed, despite at least one close call.

"I was in this amazing apartment — it would look the same in Toronto downtown, an espresso machine and nice TV," he said. "I was standing in the kitchen and I saw the huge fireball. And glass went everywhere."
For now, he says he's safe — aside from the cough plaguing several front-line fighters, he says, though it's not clear if it's COVID-19 or something else — and back away from the front lines. He said he learned of online rumours of his own death when he turned on his phone to find social-media speculation about him and messages from friends, worried about his fate.

 

[Peer W]

Hmm
Not sure how the name of the sniper might be a secret.
Wikipedia page on him (in French) was created yesterday https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Lavigne-Ortiz
He also wrote a book eight years ago. Anyone can buy it on Amazon https://www.amazon.fr/Voyageur-Sans-Olivier-Wali-LaVigne-Ortiz/dp/B01B9A4DU2
Cover of the book clearly says: Olivier "Wali" LaVigne-Ortiz.