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Topics: Ukraine
Jess Hardiman
Topics: Ukraine
Notorious French-Canadian sniper Wali has trolled Russia with a selfie on social media, thanking troops as he poses with a package of their rations in Ukraine.
The fighter, known only as 'Wali', recently left his wife and infant child behind in Canada to answer Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy's call for foreign fighters to help defend Ukraine.
He has been sharing various updates on social media – revealing in his latest that he’s managed to get hold of a Russian Army ration pack, giving the provisions a tongue-in-cheek review on Facebook.
In a caption posted alongside a selfie with the food, Wali wrote: “Here I am with a Russian military ration!”
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He then joked: “I want to thank the Russian Army for bringing this meal to me. I know it hasn't been easy.
"Thank you for crossing the war zones, muddy roads and sectors bombed by Ukrainian artillery. And thank you to the hungry Russian soldiers who sacrificed so I could have this good meal. Hoping to enjoy several other rations like this.
“And thank you for leaving ammo and grenades after you retired fighting. Some of my comrades are now even better armed than before you arrived.”
As a side note, he added that the rations were ‘as good as’ the Canadian equivalents, saying each box contains three meals for the day.
Wali has found himself in headlines a number of times since travelling to Ukraine to join the fight – having recently shut down claims he’d been killed by posting a photo of himself chilling in a ball pit with a gun.
Following a viral post, he had previously been named the 'best sniper in the world', but Canada's Global News explained that the claim he took the world's longest sniper shot in Iraq is 'false'.
"Both Wali and special operations sources say he was never a member of JTF2 and was not present when a JTF2 sniper took the 3.45 km shot killing an ISIS operative in Iraq in 2017," the outlet said.
However, when asked to set the story straight about his infamy - and the commentary that he was the deadliest marksman out there - Wali said: "I'm just a normal soldier. I'm a good soldier, no doubt about it. But I'm a good soldier among other good soldiers."
As a warning to Russia, he added: "Maybe the next time [the Russians] say that I'm dead it might be true but no one will believe them."
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