The first word of war came from their father, a business consultant who had returned to Kyiv two months ago just before Russian troops rolled in and has stayed since to help defend his country.
Worried about their 53-year-old father and friends in Ukraine, the brothers in early March announced on their channel that they planned to volunteer as defenders too.
“By sending out messages through our channel, I made kids want to go to war and I cannot say if it was good or bad,” Sava said at a news conference Thursday.
Sava, who uses the handle “No War,” instead turned his gaming channel into a driver for donations and charity game events.
He said that his father would send videos of bombardment and bodies “as in war movies,” but he couldn’t use them because they were too graphic.
Japan has taken tougher measures against Russia, worried about the impact of Moscow’s war on East Asia where Tokyo has faced threats from North Korea and China.
“Japan is the world’s top-class peaceful nation …