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- Ukrainian snipers rarely use ghillie suits, camouflage preferred by Western snipers, several marksmen told the Kyiv Post.
- They said they like rifles made by Canada, Finland, and the US, but not the old Soviet-developed SVD rifles.
- All three of the snipers were civilians before the war, and shooting was just a hobby.
Ukraine's snipers don't really use a key piece of gear commonly used by Western snipers to hide themselves on the battlefield, several marksmen told the Kyiv Post, but a few Western rifles are apparently among their go-to weapons.