‘Lady Death,’ a mysterious Ukrainian shooter, pledges to ‘kill down’ all Russian invaders

After swearing to defeat the Russians in the ongoing fight, a mystery female shooter has been nicknamed Ukraine’s new ‘Lady Death.’

The decorated but masked woman, known only by the codename Charcoal, returned to Rear Admiral Mykhailo Ostrogradsky’s frontline 35th infantry brigade with a pledge to “take them all out.”

This is reminiscent of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a famed Ukrainian sniper who killed 309 Nazis during WWII and received her country’s highest accolade, the Hero of the Soviet Union.

She is known as ‘Lady Death of the Red Army,’ and she is the most successful female sniper of all time, having appeared on postage stamps and met the three Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin.

Charcoal, whose face is partially hidden to preserve her identity, has now followed Pavlichenko’s lead with her stubborn position.

According to the New York Times, she has declared, “We must wipe them all out.”

“These individuals are not human beings. Even fascists were not as wicked as these orcs. We have to defeat them.”

She also pledged to battle Vladimir Putin’s invaders “all the way to the finish.”

The sniper joined the Ukrainian marines in 2017 and has engaged pro-Russian rebels in the eastern cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.

The report comes after an elite Russian sniper, suspected of killing scores of people before being apprehended, was seen lounging between kills in war-torn Ukraine.

After being injured, Irina Starikova is thought to have been abandoned by her guardians.

The apprehension of the 41-year-old sniper will be a big fresh blow to Vladimir Putin, since she is rumoured to have over 40 murders to her name.

Bagheera, after Rudyard Kipling’s black panther in The Jungle Book, is her codename, but there have been conflicting reports about her actual identity.

The mother-of-two was discovered injured on a Ukrainian battlefield, but she is not from Serbia, as some reports claim, nor is she a nun-turned-sniper.

She fought alongside Russian rebels in her own area, which had been battling Kyiv since 2014.

Starikova was apprehended by Ukrainian military, who said she “shot our detainees in 2014.”

Giorgi Revishvili, a scholar at King’s College London’s Department of War Studies, has also confirmed her capture.

He tweeted, “Ukrainian troops arrested famed sharpshooter fighting on the side of ORDLO, call sign Bagira,” referring to the name given to the separatist Russian-speaking areas.

He went on to say that she is accused of “killing 40 Ukrainians, including civilians.”