Two Ukrainian YouTubers in Japan make #NoWar plea

Sava (right) and his younger brother Yan holding a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on March 31. Photos: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP

Their "extremely noisy" YouTube videos usually show them playing Mario Kart and goofing around, but two Ukrainian brothers are now using their popular Japanese-language channel to speak out against war.

Sava Tkachov, 26, and his brother Yan, 20, have 1.26 million subscribers on their channel Sawayan Games, where most videos are introduced by Sava shouting and gesticulating wildly in sunglasses and chunky headphones.