"The enemy has buried me" - the mystery of the death of a famous Ukrainian female sniper
The participation of female soldiers in the War of Russia and Ukraine is no longer news, and they serve as caretakers, correspondents and even artillery observers on the front line, often being taken in by journalists. Someone went a step further and became a Lyudmila-style female sniper.
The best female sniper of World War II, Lyudmila, who killed 309 German troops, was a Ukrainian who also fought for the Soviet Union, and history is full of entanglements.
However, in the most dangerous of these occupations, they face death threats at all times, just like male soldiers. The news that the Russian no. 1 female sniper (with 40 records) "Bulga" was captured in the battle, and the Internet also reported that Olena Bilozerska, known as "Ukraine's deadliest female sniper", was killed in Mariupol on March 30, and there was even a clip showing a female soldier in camouflage in a body bag, claiming to be Olena's final destination.
Olena is the leader of Ukrainian female snipers, and since 2014, she has been fighting in the Donbass region, with a total of ten records.
The so-called war makes women walk away, and seeing the successive folds of Bulga and Olena in the news reports makes people lament that the war is killing and killing women.
Olena began as a sniper as a paramilitary in the Eastern Region, where pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian sides were extremely hostile and the fighting was brutal, especially with a very high sniper death rate. In the context of both sides, the sniper is usually portrayed as an executioner or an extremist, so once captured, there is rarely a relatively peaceful treatment. She stood out in such battles and then entered the ukrainian regular army, receiving military education as a female officer. After the Russian-Ukrainian conflict began, she also said that she was ready to pick up the rifle that had been scrubbed and maintained and go to the front line to fight.
There are different versions of her death, some say that she was targeted by the Russian army and launched an attack to death, and some say that she was killed after blocking 200 Russian troops for 7 hours in the ruins.
The news of her death caused quite a stir. But Olena (if it really is) updated her blog "I Know What I Should Do" on the day of her "death" on March 30, titled "The Enemy Has Buried Me."
The latest updated page of the Olena blog, see 30 Map 2022 time, which is the Ukrainian word for March 30, 2022.
She wrote that "although it is not known who died, the enemy photographed the body of a woman in civilian clothes, and said that it was a famous sniper, most likely Belozerskaya", "perhaps this means that I will live a hundred years". She also expressed her condolences to the dead woman and expressed her thoughts for another female friend.
The blog sparked speculation that because the video of her body was vague and mosaic-proof and could not be used for facial recognition, it was not a mystery that Olena Belozerskaya was killed.
Was this her own response, or was Olena herself dead, and the Ukrainian counter-propaganda war to counteract the effects of her death? Or is the announcement of her so-called "death" a news counterattack by the Russian side to offset the news of Bulga's capture? After all, the authoritative Russian media did not publish this news.
The confusion of the russian-Ukrainian battlefield public opinion war is uncertain, but we can try to identify it from the style of writing - Belozerskaya herself is also a female writer, who wrote the book "Illegal Soldier", describing her experience of fighting as an "illegal armed member" before becoming an officer, and she also hung the link to sell books on the front page of the blog. This latest blog post is very similar to her usual style of language.
As if the female sniper could make a lot of money by selling books, she had criticized the Ukrainian army for being paid so low that female soldiers could not afford to hire babysitters to watch their children, and had to face the problem of retirement after becoming pregnant, which she herself should not have.
Unfortunately, she was not active in updating (the latest one was on March 17), and her fans were only more than 10,000, which is a number of vehicles on the mainland, which does not match the reputation of "the deadliest female sniper". Later I realized that this was a requirement for the Ukrainian network by continental standards, which was very unfair. A blogger there with more than 10,000 followers is already very anti-heavenly.
There is another piece of evidence that she doesn't appear to be dead. In an interview with her in the media after the start of the war, Olena had this to say: "Before, on the front line, I used to take my two dogs and three cats with me, and I like animals. But now I have to send them from Kiev to the west with my parents, because the Russians will try to bomb our capital and turn it into rubble. We have suffered enormous losses. ”
Is there any coincidence that Olena does have pictures of her cat on the front lines, and her nemesis, the Russian sniper Bulga, also likes cats? Anyway, the women who see the cat in the future are right to hide and walk.
From this description, it appears that before the battle began, she was not in Mariupol, but in Kiev. She confirmed this in an interview with the Italian post on March 8: "I'm not going anywhere. I will fight until victory, or until the last moment. I was in Kiev, I was an officer of the Ukrainian army on duty, and my troops were involved in the defense of the capital. My husband is with me. ”
Kiev and Mariupol are far apart, and the siege of Mariupol began on March 7, after which Olena did not seem to have the opportunity to enter the city from Kiev. She also rarely published photographs after the start of the war, seemingly giving the media and the public a sense of surprise that she was still a sniper on the front line (in fact, she later studied artillery) as a morale boost.
Of course, this is not necessarily good news for a legendary female sniper. Many people expect her to put on a camouflage suit, pick up a rifle and go to the front line. It seems that Olena did not meet this expectation.
Whether or not Olena was killed is still in the know, but we did notice that there were many snipers on both sides of the battle, and there were also heavy losses. Sniper warfare is a special operations choice, in the eyes of a sniper, those slowly advancing, lack of professional protection of the target, is undoubtedly a moving target, in the Russian and Ukrainian two sides have been engaged in entanglement combat, the role of snipers is undoubtedly very large. However, due to the emergence of precision-guided weapons such as the Tchathanet UAV, snipers have gradually been replaced, and only on battlefields such as Ukraine will play a certain role, and have become the focus of attention in combat.
Both men and women, snipers will attract more attention and become the target of the other side's hunting. If Olena hadn't continued to write the sniper myth, it might have been a more suitable life.
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