A number of viral posts on social media have claimed that a Canadian sniper, dubbed "the world's deadliest sniper", was killed within hours of arriving in Mariupol, Ukraine, where he had gone to fight. However the man, nicknamed Wali, is still alive and well. He told the FRANCE 24 Observers team that he thinks the disinformation around his death serves to dissuade foreign fighters from going to Ukraine.
A former soldier of the 22nd regiment of the Canadian Armed Forces turned computer scientist, nicknamed Wali, went to Ukraine to fight against the Russian invasion by joining the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine in early March.
