The UK Foreign Office has implemented a ban on game controller exports to Russia, reports BBC News. We hope that the ban will at least narrow the options available to Russian drone pilots attacking Ukraine and its people.
The game controller ban isn’t a piece of standalone legislation, rather it is part of a package of 150 or so new trade sanctions that the UK announced earlier this week. Among the freshly banned items are other electronic products and components that might also be repurposed by the Russian military, as well as a broad range of chemicals, machinery, and metals. The UK’s move comes in the wake of a similar ban imposed on Russia by the nations of the EU.
