Techotic

Nathan Hodge of Wired wrote:

Russia’s top investigator is claiming that the Georgians employed mercenaries during their August war — including female snipers from Ukraine and Latvia. That sounds an awful lot like the mythical “white tights” — the exotic female snipers of Chechen war lore who were said to pick off hapless Russian conscripts. As the story had it, these stone-cold, blue eyed killers were said to be from the Baltics — or Ukraine. They were sometimes described as Olympic biathletes recruited as mercenary sharpshooters by Chechen commanders.