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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 23, 2022, 01:28 PM Mar 2022

Who is Wali the Canadian sniper and what happened to him?

A Canadian former soldier who went to fight against the Russians in Ukraine has conducted an interview proving the stories about his death were false. Dubbed by Russian media as the "deadliest sniper in the world" for a quick propaganda win, Wali, as he is known, left the armed forces back in 2012 but has returned to the fray.




“There’s two things I know for sure: that there’s a Russian invasion of Ukraine and that people think I’m dead", he told Alex Boyd of Canadian newspaper The Record on Tuesday. Here's what else he said in his comeback.

What else did he say in his interview?

Wali says he had been fighting near Kyiv for the last week and it was too dangerous to reveal his position to friends and family using a phone. A training centre in western Ukraine was hit by Russian jets with rumours that the use of phone signals allowed the Russians to triangulate the large mass of troops. Wali for his part had left his phone in a secure location during his latest round of combat.

"I'm alive, as you can see," Wali said in the video call. "Not a single scratch."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/who-is-wali-the-canadian-sniper-and-what-happened-to-him/ar-AAVnGz2

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Who is Wali the Canadian sniper and what happened to him? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 OP
wouldn't knowing where he is put him in more danger? Gee people get a grip. Srkdqltr Mar 2022 #1
Someone talked. Ray Bruns Mar 2022 #2

Srkdqltr

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1. wouldn't knowing where he is put him in more danger? Gee people get a grip.
Wed Mar 23, 2022, 01:41 PM
Mar 2022

This is a war not a Survivor episode. People die when the enemy know where they are. I want to say "loose lips sink ships" but that is cliché so I won't say it.

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