A Russian sniper with 40 kills to her credit was captured by security forces. Ukraine after being abandoned on the battlefield, local media reported citing the country’s public force.
Irina Starikovawhose code name is They havewould have told her captors that the Russian soldiers decided to leave her to her fate, after she was injured during a combat with the Ukrainian troops.
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The woman’s arrest was confirmed by Giorgi Revishilia researcher at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, who stated in Twitter that Ukrainian soldiers attacked Bagira’s sniper team, the 11th Specialized Operations Division.
“Ukrainian forces captured an infamous female sniper fighting on the side of ORDLO named Bagira”referring to the name that kyiv gives to the separatist Russian-speaking regions.
According to Revishvili, apparently Bagira is responsible for “the death of 40 Ukrainians, including civilians.”
British media claim that Starikova is originally from Serbia and has been persecuted by the Ukrainians since 2014.
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According to the Peacemaker Center, which investigates crimes committed by Russian separatists in Ukraine, Bagira is 41 years old, divorced and has two daughters, aged 11 and nine. For his work he has received the George Cross medal, the British government’s highest honor for non-operational bravery, or bravery without the presence of an enemy.
The Ukrainian news website Obozrevatel quoted a soldier named Vlad Ivanov, who claimed that Starikova received medical treatment when she was captured. According to him, she recounted that the Russian soldiers “went away, knowing that she was injured and they had the opportunity to pick me up … expecting that she would die.”
Wali, the sniper who fights alongside the Ukrainians
She is not the only known sniper on the ground. On the Ukrainian side, Wali fights, a Canadian sniper who is already known as the most fearsome in the worldand who decided to respond to the call of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyby volunteers.
He recently denied that he was killed, as had been rumored.
“I’m alive, as you can see, I don’t have a single scratch. I’m pretty much the last person to know about my death.” the military said in a video call.
Guardian it is a nickname that was earned over time. A bit of mysticism for a living legend who was part of the Canadian Armed Forces between 2009 and 2011 when northern troops marched into Afghanistan. Officially retired, he traveled as a volunteer soldier to fight in Iraq, alone and with a backpack. There he joined the peshmerga battalion and fought for several months on foreign soil.