Vyacheslav Kovalskyi, a 59-year-old businessman turned sniper specialist for the military counter-intelligence unit of SBU - Ukraine’s domestic security service, has claimed the world record of reaching the farthest target ever killed from a sniper rifle.

In an exclusive interview for the Wall Street Journal, the Ukrainian serviceman said that together with his spotter, who was responsible for calculating crucial parameters such as distance and wind speed, he eliminated a Russian officer from an astonishing distance of 3,800 meters on 18 November 2023. 

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The previous record belonged to an unnamed Canadian special forces member who in 2017 took down a target in Iraq as far as 3,540 meters. 

The SBU confirmed the report and provided a video of the operation. 

Kovalskyi told the WSJ that his team positioned itself across the river from the Russian military base in the Kherson Region, remaining motionless for several hours under freezing temperatures.