In an age of drones and precision guided missiles they are some of war's last living legends: Snipers, the silent assassins capable of killing with a single bullet over extraordinary distances.Ukraine claims one of its sharpshooters has just notched up the second-longest ranged kill on record at 8,891ft - equivalent to just over three times the height of Burj Khalifa, world's tallest building, or 35 blocks. But even that is dwarfed by the world record, held by an unnamed Canadian, at 11,319ft - which would be the same as taking out someone on the platform of 's Liverpool Street Station from the top of Big Ben.
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