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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Sweney

Keyboard warriors: Ukraine’s IT army switches to war footing

Volunteers on a laptop in Ternopil, Ukraine, arrange supplies for internally displaced persons across the country.
Volunteers on a laptop in Ternopil, Ukraine, arrange supplies for internally displaced persons across the country. Photograph: Alexey Furman/Getty Images

“We had a plan for when the war started,” says Bogdan Nesvit, the 30-year-old co-founder of Ukrainian tech developer Holy Water. “We relocated the female part of the team to Poland. With men not allowed to leave the country, we are all working between bomb shelters and hotels.”

Nesvit is now sharing a hotel room with six of his 80 colleagues in western Ukraine (“It is like a dorm”). He is one of the country’s army of almost 300,000 tech workers who have embarked on an unprecedented migration to keep their businesses running during the Russian invasion.

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