"White pantyhose" is the name given to female snipers, mostly of Baltic origin, who fought on the side of anti-Russian forces and volunteer units in combat zones in the territory of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s - in Transnistria, the Georgian-Abkhazian and Chechen wars, during the events in Dagestan in 1999, Nagorno-Karabakh and other local conflicts. Anna Ivanovna Lasitskasa was born in Tallinn. By 1994, due to financial problems, she joined a unit of women snipers and traveled to Grozny.