Yuri Chornomorets & Warriors of Light

Snipers are increasingly talking sadly about some commanders who ask them to leave all their super rifles, take assault rifles and work like regular infantry. According to these commanders, in times of drone warfare, a sniper on the battlefield cannot survive and work. The guys explain to such commanders: You want me to work at a distance of 50 to 300 meters with an assault rifle, in the same conditions of drones hunting me - and how do I become more resilient? In reality, not only drones will be waiting for me, but also bullets from the enemy, who will have the opportunity to shoot at me from close range. Indeed, on the battlefield in normal units, snipers are now systematically knocking out enemy manpower at a distance of 2 km. Yes, this is a risk, because drones are trying to find and neutralize our snipers. But that is what high art is, to survive and hit the enemy by taking reasonable risks! And the operators of our reconnaissance drones in normal units coordinate the fire of sni...

These days I am constantly asked what I think about Assault Forces, since this topic interests many, and we help snipers of several assault regiments. I will answer right away about our situation, and then about assault troops as a separate phenomenon in general. Our situation is very simple. We help large sniper groups that have good snipers and support personnel (reconnaissance, machine gunners, drivers, drone operators, sappers), have good group commanders and good instructors, and also have the full support of the command at the battalion, regiment, brigade, corps levels. Of course, we receive offers to take on the patronage of new sniper pairs from our snipers regarding their friends from other units who have already proven their professionalism. Also, a significant percentage of new groups are recommendations from our instructors, who often know the guys since 2014 and have seen their entire development at every step. After checking the level of snipers, we learn about their stat...

When the long summer of 2025 began, I was full of pessimistic premonitions. We already had a hole from October 2023 to April 2024, when there were a lot of losses at the front among snipers, and I was afraid that we would again find ourselves in a systemic crisis. Let me remind you that since April 2024, the situation in terms of losses has stabilized only thanks to enormous efforts to additionally provide sniper groups , to switch to .375 caliber rifles, to build systematic defense on the battlefield. The problem of the summer of 2025 was similar, but bigger : if losses began to increase again in geometric progression, we simply would not be able to find any universal high-quality solutions that would improve the situation. In the spring of 2025, I decided to make the main efforts to maximally strengthen the protection of snipers from drones , providing everyone with electronic warfare, rifles for shooting down drones and, most importantly, unique thermal imaging collimators for these...

I am asked why we train marksmen, invest time and resources, and not throw everything exclusively at sniper groups fighting with the longest-range rifles? Today I came across an interesting testimony from the front. Svyatoslav Yavorivsky ( slavko.yavir on fb): "The effectiveness of shooting with an AK-74 or AR-15 at 300-400 m is practically zero, and cartridges cost money. A machine gun firing point immediately becomes a target for drones.  No one has canceled infantry combat, but we need to return to the good old mass sniping, that is, marksmen. The Finns once completely demoralized the Red Army in this way. A detachment of stormtroopers should be supported by one machine gun and two marksmen (local accurate separate shooters). This is not a sniper with a two-meter "paddle" of large caliber, but an accurate shooter at 400-500 m, with a semi-automatic rifle, who supports defensive combat or assault from cover. The Americans have been doing this for a long time. To train...

Friends, we are doing unique things for unique people, while the state cannot even implement ordinary things. I am proud that we are doing what no one can and no one does! The state still cannot ensure the reinforcement of drones near Pokrovsk to wipe out the Rubicon unit - in fact, the only russian professional unit of the highest level. And we do not even dream that the state will pay attention to snipers if it cannot win the drone war near Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad! Our snipers are also suffering from enemy drones there and testify that a systematic and expensive countermeasure is necessary - not just to put our drones forward in larger numbers, but to find ways to destroy the enemy drone operators from Rubicon at any cost. In conditions when the state does not provide enough resources to save Pokrovsk and Myrnograd, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro, we no longer have hope that there will be support for our super-professional snipers. We are working. Yesterday, we paid a 100% advance payment f...

  A story about the effectiveness of helping super professionals with numbers. ⬇️ I hope this will inspire you to support us. Our super snipers have a lot of needs, including those marked urgent. So. Each brigade relies on groups of professionals, or is itself a collection of groups of professionals. This gives results. If there are no such groups of professionals somewhere, or they are weak - expect trouble. If drones, artillery and snipers are at the height of professionalism - the front will hold, even if the infantry is weak. For a month, our guys and girls supported the battalion, without losses in their group. In the battalion, 27 people were killed and wounded per month, which is very few, the battalion itself is very weak, everything was supported by artillery, drones and snipers of the SOF. 1000 orcs were destroyed in the battalion area in a month. 27 and 1000! Many hits - drones, a little less artillery and snipers. Conclusions: 1. We need to support groups of profession...