Posted on 08/30/2022 4:34:54 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Before taking a shot, Ukrainian sniper Andriy buries his face in a foldout mat, breathing slowly and deliberately.
“I need to be completely relaxed, to find a place where I will not move the rifle when I pull the trigger,” he says. “I don’t think about anything. It’s a kind of vacuum.”
In a semicircle around his head are boxes of bullets, printouts of charts, a heavy-duty stapler and a roll of tape.
Strapped to his wrist is a monitor, which is the shape of a jewelry box. It’s a ballistics calculator to factor in the wind and other surrounding conditions. Bees persistently circling his head and scope are ignored.
After a long pause, he says the word “shot” in Ukrainian.
Crack! A sound not unlike a starting gun used at sporting events produces a reflexive jolt in people unaccustomed to war.
Six months ago, the noise might have startled Andriy, who had moved to Western Europe to pursue a career in engineering.
His experience resembles that of many Ukrainians who returned home to the war, abruptly pulled from civilian life to embrace fighting methods ‒ modern but also makeshift ‒ that have held back the far larger Russian military.
Andriy comes from Bucha, a district near Kyiv’s airport that was hammered during the Russian advance. Hundreds of civilian killings took place there, the bodies found in mass graves or left lying where they were shot in what the United Nations describes as potential war crimes.
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You’re running on deranged lunatic energy this morning.
How freakin’ heroic.
Seems like pure projection to me, Comrade.
Is it not?
No, when you beging the day roboposting Biden war propaganda it represents deranged lunatic energy.
He bought his own gear and a U.S.-made sniper rifle, and began receiving training from a special forces instructor, connected through friends in the military.
Kudos to people who are willing to fight for freedom.
But Comrade Jon, if you do not approve of the news story, should you not file a complaint with the Associated Press?
Shame people in our own country aren’t willing to fight for our own freedom
.
Shame people in our own country are fighting for the same causes of those taking away our freedom.
Shame those same people don’t realize that the Ukraine and the US are both going to no longer be free countries.
Shame people allow emotions to rule their mind and become unable to see the big picture.
This can go on for quite a while.
Yes, there are plenty of Russian invaders to shoot in Ukraine.
No. I fully expect leftists to promote Biden's war policy. It's Neocons like you who robopost Biden swill that's concerning. Look, I'm here to help you. Please keep your mouth shut and your ears and eyes open.
Did you light the candles in your Saint George Washington Zelensky shrine this morning for a successful propaganda blitz?
Bidenistas are pathetic, blind losers.
The propaganda is unlike anything the world has ever seen.
That’s all you foolish people have, photo ops. What you really need are brains.
LOL!
Putin accused of faking visit to military hospital after photos reveal familiar face
That is very interesting, I would like to see more on that.
Your #18 is an example of the retard energy I was talking about.
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