Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov is also calling on Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Riot Games to shut down their offices in Russia.
Ukraine’s latest effort to pressure Russia into calling off the invasion of its country involves recruiting the biggest gaming companies to its cause. On Wednesday, Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov took to Twitter to urge Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation to stop serving Russian users. “If you support human values, you should [leave] the Russian market,” he wrote. In the same tweet, Fedorov included a letter directed to all game development companies and esports platforms,urging them to temporarily ban Russian and Belarusian users and cancel any events in Russia and Belarus, which has partnered with the Kremlin on the invasion.
