Like many young people in the Soviet Union at that time ... In very little time she distinguished herself as a fearsome sniper, killing 187 Germans in her first 75 days at war.

Jonathan Poquette is currently serving as a sniper in Ukraine ... Ukraine, once a part of the Soviet Union, fights with a lot of Soviet-era weaponry that has long been in the country.

marking the 85 th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Finland. Häyhä was an accomplished sniper who reportedly killed over 500 enemy soldiers – the highest number attributed to any ...