Skip to main content

Good news and challenges

All news falls into one of two categories: good news and challenges—and thank God for that!


The good news is this. We have summed up the results of supplying our best sniper teams with top-quality ammunition, and we are pleased that we accomplished far more than we originally planned.

Yet even that proved to be barely enough, because in several corps not only the designated marksmen—who have been doing an outstanding job supporting assault operations—but also the snipers have been performing exceptionally well.

The biggest success has been the .375 caliber Desert Tech rifles: short, lightweight, yet extremely accurate. Compact and precise bullpup systems like these are the future, even in the age of drones. Every extra inch and every extra kilogram becomes a burden in drone warfare. Every extra centimeter creates another camouflage challenge. A precise bullpup is exactly what today's battlefield demands.

Other .375 caliber systems are performing well too, though not nearly as intensively as the Desert Tech rifles.

As for the .338 caliber, the future belongs to accurate semi-automatic rifles—but that ideal system does not yet exist. More precisely, the available options still fall short of what we would like to see.

For now, we continue managing the limitations of the bolt-action systems we have. We have already used more .338 ammunition than we anticipated back in the spring.

The .50 caliber is gradually becoming less relevant. This war has made its marginalization an everyday reality. It is simply too heavy to avoid revealing your position, and that is often a matter of life and death. Drones now handle most anti-equipment missions, while engagements against personnel increasingly call for something other than .50 caliber rifles. The overall trend is toward lighter systems and a gradual transition to different weapons.

Among traditional sniper systems, we continue developing our longest-range .416 caliber platforms, and we already have several projects underway to strengthen this segment.

Overall, the situation is stable. We are maintaining what we already have while gradually introducing new elements—without diverting resources from our highest priority: protecting our guys and girls from enemy drones.

The challenges are these.

From time to time, the enemy strikes the material base of our sniper groups with Shaheds and glide bombs. Rebuilding after such attacks is always difficult for two reasons.

First, a great deal of equipment can be lost. Thank God the rifles themselves usually survive—2023 and 2024 were much worse in that regard. Generators, EcoFlow power stations, ammunition reserves, and other essential equipment are destroyed, and replacing everything quickly is never easy.

Second, some groups face a different kind of problem: the guys often refuse to say what was lost. They take out loans and try to replace everything themselves. Thankfully, we have built a system of double and even triple verification. Photos and videos of the aftermath allow us to press them until they finally admit what was destroyed and what must be replaced first.

Good news motivates us like a carrot held out in front of us. Challenges drive us forward like a whip.

That is how we keep working—non-stop, without weekends or holidays. It is an enormous amount of work that never stops.

We ask for your help in protecting our guys and girls from enemy drones. Your support is as vital as water in the desert. It also allows us to secure matching support from our Ukrainian sponsors, bringing more good news and helping us overcome every new challenge.

Right now, we urgently need:
📌 12 Typhoon Quake shotguns at 26,360 UAH each, three Typhoon Sierra shotguns at 30,456 UAH each for National Guard, assault troops, Air Assault Forces, and artillery units.
📌 4 Hatsan BTS shotguns at 17,520 UAH each for repair and medical evacuation teams.
📌 Holosun thermal super-collimators at 89,640 UAH each. We have seven urgent requests for them. Everyone is absolutely thrilled with these because they provide outstanding protection against drones at night!
📌Shotgun ammunition at 6,760 UAH per box of 250 rounds. The requests are endless!

Please help!!! Every donation will be matched by our Ukrainian sponsors, allowing us to purchase even more of the equipment requested by our snipers and the men and women fighting alongside them!!!

Follow @MapleSyrupF for the TeamYuri Raffle updates!

Monobank accepts 🍏Apple Pay & 🍀Google Pay
http://send.monobank.ua/jar/7uwhtDGmiD

*spotfund http://spot.fund/rlnzphsc

DonorBox https://donorbox.org/light-will-prevail

🧩Bitcoin
bc1qwcmc2nqz4jnfyeuwx03vn3y8u2lh8zfz4nxkgd

⚡️Lightning Bitcoin
lno1pgtygmmwv96xjmmwwvsxvmmjyp2x2ctdt96hy6gkyypayv3vm0pvalcurfrrmxs9hwr5r9efnspgjmh5d637z736gk2k90c

👕TeamYuri Merch
https://www.bonfire.com/store/teamyuri/

All ways to help (including Swift)
listed here 👉 http://chornomorets.notepin.co

Popular posts from this blog

The Evolution of Sniper Warfare in Ukraine

Four long years of experience: how sniper warfare — and our support for snipers — has changed. In just one more month, the great russian-Ukrainian war will have lasted as long as the First World War. It was in the furnace of World War I that mass professional sniping was born. During the Russian-Ukrainian war, sniper warfare has undergone its greatest transformation yet — and these changes must be understood again and again. These days also mark four years since we began helping snipers. By then I could no longer fight myself, and countless requests from the front forced me to begin the work of providing grassroots support to units close to my heart. During the first months, starting in May 2022, we helped with ammunition, vehicles, rifles, optics, suppressors — we provided whatever the guys asked for. But even at that early stage, we began concentrating on .338 caliber rifles, mainly Rugers and Savages as affordable but high-quality weapons. We refined every rifle to near perfection,...
Read more

What problems our snipers have and how we can help

  There are many questions to me about the situation at the front, what problems our snipers have and how we can help. 1. The first main problem is Rubicon. Something like our Unmanned Systems Forces, but they work not only from the rear, but also directly at the front, destroying everything they detect from the line of combat contact 10 km into our rear. They also partially reach targets further than 10 km. All this is achieved due to the unlimited provision of Rubicon with all types of drones and all types of weapons necessary for such units. If our command had a desire to win the war , several decisions would have been made that have long been necessary: 1A. We need to direct units of professionals to destroy Rubicon , providing them with unlimited resources. 1B. We need to provide brigades with drones , against which Rubicon operates, not according to e-points and previously achieved results, but unlimitedly. The same goes for electronic warfare and radar reconnaissance. 1C....
Read more

Why we train marksmen and not invest everything exclusively at the longest-range sniper groups

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...
Read more