Linus Torvalds removed all Russian and Belarusian contributors from #linux development team.

Russians forked the last version before getting banned and are modifying their own kernel now. #Russia was unaffected by the microsoft outage couple of months ago as they use their own kernels.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-kicked-the-russians-out-of-linux-now-theyre-creating-a-sovereign-linux-community-in-russia-ministry-of-digital-development-steps-in