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.
Theres two things I know for sure: that theres a Russian invasion of Ukraine and that people think Im 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."
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