https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epx774/war-thunder-turns-off-chat-because-players-are-fighting-about-ukraine

War Thunder is a game where teams compete to destroy each other’s military assets. Ships, tanks, and planes pulled from the past 100 years of conflict fight each other for dominance of the map. It’s a game where communication is important but, for the past month, developer Gaijin Entertainment has kept global voice and text chat completely off.

Gaijin Entertainment was founded in Belarus in 2002, but now maintains its headquarters in Budapest, Hungary. On February 26, two days after Russia escalated its war in Ukraine, the company put out a statement on social media.