Ubisoft has quietly removed the biographies of five Rainbow Six Siege operators that either represent or previously served for the Russian Spetsnaz faction from the official Siege website. This is almost certainly related to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
As spotted by an eagle-eyed Reddit user and reported by SiegeGG, the biographies of Tachanka, Glaz, Kapkan, Fuze, and Finka have all been removed from their operator pages. All five of these operators have ties to the Spetsnaz faction and all five were born in the former Soviet Union. Tachanka, Glaz, and Kapkan are Russian, while Fuze is from Uzbekistan, and Finka is from Belarus.
Despite being taken down from the Siege website, the bios for all five operators are currently still accessible in-game at the time of writing. The Loadout has reached out to Ubisoft to see if in-game bio removals for these operators will also be taking place.
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