killing the fox with your hounds is illegal in the UK from around 2005, as well it should be. I expect this law is broken as much as any other.
I also assume that getting protected status is their starting point in attempting to get that law removed from the books.
The war in Ukraine changed very little, the same engineers who were already working out of Belarus on British, and likely other national software projects just moved to places like Poland and continued as if nothing ever happened.
