The Ukrainian sniper claiming to have killed a Russian combatant from a record 12,470 feet away sat still for hours in frigid weather before his spotter ultimately gave the command to fire the shot.

Ukrainian fighters "eliminated" a group of Russian troops in an ambush, Kyiv's GUR military intelligence agency said.

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