How a Swedish Sniper Found Redemption in the Ukraine War - Daily Signal
They had been crawling in the woods to stay concealed when the jeep with four separatists inside pulled up and parked along the road a few hundred meters away. Mikael Skillt laid a reassuring hand on his Smith & Wesson knife. Skillt was unusually anxious. He felt that way now too, behind separatist lines in Ilovaisk in eastern Ukraine. Skillt, a Swede, had killed many men in combat, yet this time would be different. His enemy’s death was registered by the faster-than-gravity way that dead men fall to the earth. And, in Skillt’s experience, a balaclava normally concealed the enemy’s face. >>> Related: Inside Ukraine’s Grassroots Fight for Democracy. They had rolled down the windows of the jeep and had been smoking and drinking vodka for a while. They were probably drunk, Skillt thought. Creeping up to the vehicle, Skillt took the driver’s side. His friend, another Swede who had joined the Azov Battalion to fight for Ukraine, took the passenger’s side. Skillt put the knife in and pulled it out. The doomed man made a few gurgling sounds and looked at Skillt in terror. Source: dailysignal.com
