 Domestically her achievements were acknowledged particularly by the war correspondent Ilya Ehrenburg and in the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda", which said that Shanina was one of the best snipers in her unit and that even veteran soldiers were inferior to her in shooting accuracy.Shanina's exploits were also reported in the Western press, particularly in Canadian newspapers, where she was called "the unseen terror of East Prussia".She paid no special attention to the achieved renown, and once wrote that she had been overrated.