The world developer of the tank declared extremists by Russia to support Ukrainian.

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Wargaming CEO Victor Kislyi and Lesta Games founder Malik Khaatajiv was declared by Russia as “extremist”.
This is due to the funds of the World of Tanks for Ukraine.
Wargaming and Lesta Games cut ties when the world developers of the tank left Russia in 2022.

Russia has declared WARGAMING CEO Victor Kislyi and Lesta Games founder Malik Khatajiev as “members of extremist organizations.”

The ruling was delivered behind the closed door at the Moscow Court shortly after condemning the prosecutor general Katazhayv and Kislyi in 2023, referring to Ukraine's Tank Fund Campaign in Ukraine.

As reported by Dev.ua, the court ordered all the stock seizure of the LESTA game, the assets were soon under the state control and are likely to be transferred to the “proper Russian company.”

Tank's World Development Time Line

3 tanks and Burnt Forest World War Gorim Photo

Shortly after Russia began invading Ukraine in 2022, the developer left Russia and Belarus and closed the office in Minsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Instead, Wargaming opened a studio in Serbia and Poland and supervised the world and world battleships of the tanks.

Lesta Games was founded in 1991.
Wargaming was founded in 1998.
In 2011, Lesta Games, a developer based in St. Petersburg, is combined with the Belarus Studio War.
Russia invades Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
WARGAMING divided the LESTA game into a separate organization on April 4, 2022.
The development of Russia's World of Tanks ('Mir Tankov') is transferred to Lesta Games.
Lesta Games will launch a war game with three licenses on October 12, 2022.
Wargaming has raised more than a million dollars in 2023, including “Wargamingunited”, a fundraising event in Ukraine.
The charges are imposed on LESTA games on funding Ukrainian military.
On June 3, 2025, Victor Kislyi and Malik Khaatajiev were declared as extremists, and LESTA Games' assets were seized by the Russian government.

Russia claims that it won't aim for the world of the tank player.

The tank runs across the dirt road in the world of the tank.

Both war and LESTA games were declared as extremist as their own 'anti -Russian' actions, but Anton Gorelkin, the first vice chairman of the state DUMA Information Technology Committee, said that players do not have to worry at Telegram.

“They cannot be charged with the Ukrainian army or extremism for the purchase of the game,” Gorel Kean said. “Instagram users of Instagram, forbidden in Russia and belonging to the extremist company meta, have nothing to fear.”

When the incident was held behind the closed door, other official details have not yet been disclosed.