flamie, Dosia receive Twitch bans for co-streaming event promoting drone company used in attacks on Ukrainian civilians

A number of Russian streamers including former NAVI player Egor "flamie" Vasilyev and PGL Major Kraków 2017 winner Mikhail "Dosia" Stolyarov have been banned on Twitch after co-streaming an event sponsored by Alabuga Polytech, an industrial zone in Russia that builds attack drones used to bomb Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.

According to extensive reporting by CNN, Newsweek, and AFP, among others, the state-owned Alabuga Polytech Zone is home to the Yelabuga drone factory, which builds Iranian-designed Shahed "kamikaze" drones for use by the Russian military in their invasion of Ukraine.

As part of their agreement to co-stream the Alabuga Polytech Cup, flamie, Dosia, and a number of other streamers ran banner ads on their Twitch accounts advertising "work and study" opportunities within Alabuga.

The existence of the event and its active promotion by a number of high-profile personalities has outraged many, especially in the Ukrainian CS community, as Shahed "kamikaze" drones and other drones used by the Russian military in their invasion of Ukraine have killed 100s of civilians, targeted energy infrastructure, homes, and other non-military sites.

The event's presence on Twitch has also raised eyebrows as Alabuga Polytech is sanctioned by the European Union and the United States. Despite this and Twitch's TOS and other terms prohibit the promotion of "content that depicts, glorifies, encourages, or supports terrorism" as well as any entity that is sanctioned by the United States or EU.

While the event has been taken down from Twitch and the streamers of the event have been banned for an unknown length, it raises questions about how such large streamers were able to circumvent Twitch's rules with little oversight.