💰 Russian agents killed 3 men they said were saboteurs sent by Ukraine. A report says they were just gamers in costume.

TL;DR

The initial story of Russian FSB agents taking out Ukrainian saboteurs came under scrutiny when supposed militant gear was identified as imitation gear from the video game "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.On Wednesday evening, state news channel Russia-1 reported on an operation by the FSB in Voronezh, a city around 150km from the border with Ukraine.Per the paper, the men were mimicking the popular survival-horror videogame, "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.," which is set in a fictionalized version of Ukraine's Chernobyl."Those exact flags could be seen in the hands of the ultra-right gangs during the Kyiv Maidan," claimed the report, referring to the uprising in 2014 which overthrew Ukraine's last pro-Russian government.The two men identified by The Moscow Times, which viewed what it said were their social media accounts, were Vorozneh locals Vladimir Kotovsky, and an account under the name Stalker Phosgene."

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