The FSB reported on November 23 that it shot dead three people in Voronezh who were suspected of preparing sabotage at military and energy facilities in the region.

As The Moscow Times found out, two of the three killed were playing airsoft, as well as role-playing games based on the video game "STALKER", developed by the Ukrainian company GSC Game World.

The FSB claimed that the sabotage was allegedly prepared by "friends of a conspiratorial cell of supporters of Ukrainian nationalist ideology."

The suspects - "the driver and his two accomplices" - were killed during an attempt to detain them on the outskirts of Voronezh.

The intelligence service said that the suspects offered armed resistance, after which they opened fire in return.

Journalists of The Moscow Times talked to representatives of the airsoft community of Voronezh and found out that one of the killed was a local resident Uladzimir Katovsky, and the other was known by the pseudonym Stalker Fasgen.

One of the interlocutors of the publication said that Katovsky was an "ordinary technician, a worker" who was a supporter of Alexei Navalny, and "Phosgen was an anarchist, a rebel and supported Ukraine."

As noted by The Moscow Times, in the "News" program on the "Russia-1" TV channel, in the story about the FSB operation in Voronezh, they showed a flag with an emblem in the form of a green wolf's head in profile and the inscription "Volya" - the emblem of the "Freedom" group from the game.

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In the story of "Russia-1", the flag was called "the flag of the ultra-right nationalist party Volya".