War in Ukraine: the exploits of the mythomaniac sniper

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Excluded from the army a few years ago, a former colonel in the intelligence services has returned to service. And savor his rehabilitation. Encounter.

From our special correspondent in Ukraine Romain Gubert

Ihen you enter Andréi Dubovik’s elegant pavilion, you have to take off your shoes, put on your skates and not make too much noise. He doesn’t say it like that, but in this house on the outskirts of kyiv, Madame Eve. Colonel or not, her husband does not want to disobey the rules set by the hostess.

Especially since, unlike the neighbors’ house and the neighborhood school, that of the Dubovik family was miraculously spared by the Russian bombs that fell at the start of the war in Ukraine. After these formalities, the former officer, who spent 30 years in the army, first in the special forces then in the intelligence services, can finally show his arsenal to his visitors. In the living room where dozens of tank models are enthroned, figures…