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Sabotage group commander killed carrying Russian sniper rifle

on 07/14/2017 | | Donbas | News Print This Post Print This Post
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On June 24, 2017, near the village of Zholobok in Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian soldiers from the 93rd Separate Mechanized Infantry Brigade defeated a terrorist sabotage group and captured a Russian active duty serviceman from the 22nd Special Forces Brigade of the GRU. Vladislav Klochkov, the commander of the 93rd Brigade said that during the clash with the enemy sabotage group, the commander of this group, a Russian officer, Alexander Shcherba, was killed, while four other members of the group were captured, including Victor Ageev, a Russian citizen from the Altai Krai and a serviceman from the 22nd Special Forces Brigade of the GRU.

Having analyzed weapon photos of the Russian sabotage group, we have established that the sniper rifle belonging to the killed commander Alexander Alexandrovich Shcherba was made in the Russian Federation after the year 2000. We made this conclusion after comparing the serial number of the rifle 0061272 with the data placed on a Russian specialized online forum guns.ru.

On the website there is a record that SVD (7.62 mm Dragunov sniper rifle) with serial number 0061147 was manufactured in 2000. The last three digits of the serial number on Shcherba’s rifle indicate that his rifle was manufactured later than the one listed on the website. It is worth noting the gun stock: the buttstock and forend are made of plastic. According to data from open sources, production of rifles with plastic gunstocks began in 1998-1999. Russian SVD sniper rifles with plastic stocks made after 2000 have not been exported to Ukraine.  Therefore, they have not been captured in combat from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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By Mikhail Kuznetsov  for InformNapalm website.

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