Dasha Antonovna Kavaletsky

Dasha Antonovna Kavaletsky is a sniper of the Russian Red Army (so it has been known since the Ultranationalists refounded the Soviet Union). Born in a rural village, she spent her youth living in the Altay Mountains, where she acquired her talent for Wilderness living and marksmanship, the latter gained by hunting deer using the family's rifle, a soviet-era SVD.

Russian Civil War
When the Russian Civil War broke out, Dasha and the other villagers initially had nothing to do with the conflict. However, at one point a group of Ultrantionalist fighters arrived at the village, apparently pursued by a large force of Loyalists. Hearing of their ambitions to reform the Soviet Union, Dasha decided to aid their cause and provided a vast amount of local knowledge. When the Loyalists arrived, they were stymied and confounded at every turn. Ambushes, makeshift minefields and all manner of nasty surprises assailed the Loyalists, including quite a few snipers, one of which was Dasha herself, using her SVD.

Despite this, the Ultranationalists were routed, having insufficient numbers to hold back their enemies. Dasha was one of many forced to flee into the mountains while the loyalists burned the village. Aside from various guerrilla activities, Dasha did little else throughout the war.

Russo-American War
After the Ultranationalists defeated the old capitalist government and reformed the Soviet Union, Dasha remained in the Altay Mountains, without many other places to go to. However, when evidence was foundthat the terrorist attack on Zakhaev International Airport was assisted by America, Russia cried out for war, and the new government was happy to comply.

When the invasion began, Dasha signed up as a scout sniper. Upon arriving on US soil, she deployed as part of a recon team with the job of destroying part of a string of American defenses intended to blunt a Russian advance across the Midwest. The operation was largely successful, especially one very close success which Dasha managed to procure herself from a near-failure. It turned out that an infiltrator had managed to replace their C4 with a highly nonexplosive substance resembling plaster of Paris. However, she managed to rig a nearby oil well with improvised explosives, turning what would otherwise have been an intact fortress into a large oil fire.

This drew the attention of the teams commanding officers, who assigned Dasha to a special operation in Colorado. However, the intervention of special forces and a rogue Shadow Company platoon turned the mission into a disaster, leaving Dasha as the only survivor, presumed dead along with her teammates.

She fled, pursued by the same special forces who had killed her comrades, across Alaska and into Siberia, since America had launched a counter-invasion by then anyway. The timely intervention of a detatchment of Spetsnaz saved the situation and Dasha.

Directly following her rescue, she participated in an assault on a POW camp in Finland along with her rescuers. With this mission accomplished, their mismatched team defended an arctic airbase against American armour before the transmittion of America's surrender and withdrawal was recieved.