Start-up founder Sergei Krupnik, who left Russia shortly after it invaded Ukraine, is one of tens of thousands of IT workers who have fled the country. The exodus will have economic and cybersecurity ramifications for years.
Russia’s invasion has forced millions of Ukrainians from their homes and outside their nation’s borders. But the war has also spun off a smaller diaspora: Russians, in numbers estimated to be approaching a quarter-million, have chosen to leave their homeland rather than remain under President Vladimir Putin’s rule.