Ukrainian government calls for game companies to cut off Russia during invasion

Photo: Mykhailo Fedorov, the vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation of Ukraine, speaks at a December 2021 press conference. Photo credit: Yevhen Kotenko/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images. Article by Kyle Orland. Ars Technica – March 3, 2022.

Mykhailo Fedorov, the vice prime minister and minister of digital transformation of Ukraine, has publicly called on “all game development companies” to “temporarily block all Russian and Belorussian accounts” in response to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

In a tweet from his verified account, Fedorov also called on esports platforms to “temporarily stop the participation of Russian and Belorussian teams and gamers in all international esports events and cancel all international events holding [sic] on the territory of Russia and Belarus.” […]

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