They’d been on edge for months. As winter wore on and Russian troops amassed on Ukraine’s border, they prepared a fleet of well-stocked buses, whose drivers stood by around the clock just outside the company’s headquarters.
When the troops invaded on Feb. 24, 2022, it was 4 a.m.. In that eerie dawn, GSC Game World had already activated their emergency plan to relocate their employees and their families to a small town near the Ukrainian border.