On November 11, 2020, at about 22:00, six men and 3 women in civilian clothes and in masks arrived at the "Change Square" and began to cut off the red and white ribbons placed by local residents. Raman Bandarenka found out about this in a local text chat in the popular app Telegram. He posted his final message in the group, "I'm going out!" before going out to the street to see what was happening.