Worlds deadliest sniper shooter Joins Ukrainian Army against Russia

The world waits in anticipation as deranged Vladimir Putin prepares to unleash the full force of Russia’s troops in a David-and-Goliath battle for the Ukrainian historic capital, Kyiv.

According to ‘Wali,’ an elite sniper and western freedom fighter who plans to pick them off with pinpoint accuracy, the despot’s soldiers will pay a devastating price when they finally set foot inside the besieged city.

Wali, a veteran of two tours in Afghanistan with Canada’s Royal 22nd Regiment, left behind a fiancée, a one-year-old son, and a comfortable life as an IT programmer to respond to Ukraine’s call for foreign recruits.

Weeks later, he’s hidden in a secret nook high above Kyiv’s streets, ready to greet the first Russian invader he sees with a bullet from his.338 rifle.

‘I’m not fond of the idea of shooting anyone.’ But when the time comes to pull the trigger, I won’t hesitate,’ Wali says in an exclusive phone interview with DailyMail.com.

‘If Putin truly desires Kyiv, he will have to pay a high price.’ Nobody wants the Russians to come here, and everyone will fight them. The harm we can inflict on them will be severe.

Wali has requested to be known by the nickname he was given in Afghanistan in case former KGB strongman Putin discovers his identity and attempts to target his family in Quebec.

While his family gathered on Saturday to celebrate his son’s first birthday, Wali spent the day holed up in an abandoned building overlooking what he will only refer to as a “strategic location” on Kyiv’s outskirts.

According to the most recent reports, Russia’s infantry has advanced to within 15 miles of the shuttered city of nearly three million people, despite fierce resistance and a string of humiliating setbacks.

But Wali tells DailyMail.com that once Putin’s men pour into the streets – and stray into his crosshairs – he and his band of Ukrainian brothers will have the upper hand.

‘This is a large, developed city, not a village.’ Looking out from where I am now, there are numerous structures and buildings from which to shoot, as well as numerous locations from which to conceal weapons and launch ambushes. ‘They won’t know what hit them,’ Wali promises.

‘The Russians have already failed to take the smaller cities of Kharkiv and Mariupol. They will not be able to keep Kyiv. It’ll be better for everyone if they don’t attack.’

It’s only been two weeks since Wali sat in front of a TV in Canada, watching Putin launch Europe’s largest military offensive since World War II.

Wali’s fighting days were well and truly behind him, he thought, with a new career in IT and a young family.

His boss, a Ukrainian-Canadian with family members trapped in besieged cities, persuaded him that it was his “duty” to respond to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call to arms.

Wali claims that, like a “firefighter who hears the alarm ringing,” he joined his colleague on the next flight to Poland, leaving behind a fiancée who was as perplexed as she was terrified by his decision to engage in brutal warfare 4,000 miles away.

‘She was terrified and said, ‘We need you here, your son needs you.’ But she eventually calmed down and said, ‘OK, do your duty, but please be safe and don’t take any risks,’ Wali says.

‘I was overcome with emotion as I walked away.’ You have no idea when you’ll return, or even if you’ll make it back at all. But I know I owe it to my family as well as the rest of the world, so I’m not going to stay here.

‘The most heartbreaking thing for me was missing my son’s birthday party.’ I watched for a few minutes while on the phone. I was in the dark, in an abandoned building, with my flashlight, and it felt like I was on a different planet than them.’

On March 3, Wali says he was greeted with hugs and handshakes as he crossed from Poland into Ukraine, passing columns of refugees trudging in the opposite direction to safety.

He would soon become famous after giving a brief interview to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which went viral and morphed into bizarre headlines about the ‘world’s deadliest sniper’ targeting Putin.

‘If that’s what they want to believe, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. In a war, people need these kinds of stories to boost morale,’ says Wali modestly.

‘I’m a decent sniper, but I don’t deserve this much attention.’ I don’t want to diminish the bravery of the other soldiers here.’

Wali honed his sharpshooting abilities while serving in the Canadian army for 12 years.

He first went to Afghanistan in 2009, spending six months fighting alongside US troops in Kandahar before returning a year or so later to train Afghan police.

After leaving the military in 2015, Wali embarked on his first stint as a freedom fighter, fighting alongside Kurdish forces in northern Iraq against ISIS terrorists for four months.

Wali claims that without the air support, training, and high-tech weapons he was used to, he and his allies learned to fight with whatever they could get their hands on.

‘There were no helmets, no ballistic plates, not enough ammunition. I went out on patrol sometimes with just two magazines,’ he recalls.

‘There was an occasion where we pushed into a village on the back of a bulldozer using the big shovel as protection. I was hanging on thinking this is insane, I cannot survive this but the Islamic State fighters were so shocked they ran away.

‘Some of them hid in a house so the Kurds set it alight then shot them dead when they rushed out. I can still hear the bullets flying past me. It was absolutely brutal, a day I will never forget.’

Wali claims that the western parts of Ukraine he passed through en route to Kyiv were largely unscathed, and that he hasn’t encountered the level of violence and destruction he witnessed in Iraq.

His reputation as a fearsome marksman helped him win over Ukrainian commanders, who entrusted him with a $6,000 military-grade.338 sniper rifle and assigned him to the city’s defence.

The Finnish-made gun, with high-grade optics, is similar to the Western weapons he’s used to, and it can kill at a range of 1,400 metres (1,531 yards).

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