Ukrainian Sniper Breaks Cover to Claim World-Record Hit of More Than 2 Miles
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Ukrainian Sniper Breaks Cover to Claim World-Record Hit of More Than 2 Miles

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KYIV—The Ukrainian sniper had lain still for hours in near freezing temperatures when the command came to take the shot at a Russian soldier almost 2½ miles away. Kovalskiy and Ukraine say the shot set a new sniping distance record, breaking the previously acknowledged mark by more than 850 feet. Kovalskiy’s shot hit around 12,470 feet, around a third longer than the Golden Gate Bridge. U.S. ballistics expert Brad Millard timed the shot in footage and said that it was the correct time that this sort of bullet would take to hit 12,470 feet. In the Kreminna Forest in east Ukraine, a former sniper turned artilleryman said hearing the news was a “punch the air" moment.

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Ukraine claims sniper has broken record for second-longest ranged kill
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Ukraine claims sniper has broken record for second-longest ranged kill

Daily Mail  

A Ukrainian sniper has claimed to have executed the second-longest combat kill in history, according to Kyiv's military chiefs. The unnamed sniper felled a Russian soldier at a distance of 2,710m – around 1.7miles – according to Ukraine's military, which published what it claimed was footage of the shot looking down the sniper's scope. Ukraine claims one of its snipers …

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