If so, then Epic should be prepared for law court, because they already do that and receive the money from the Belarus for UE4 (and according to the Epic’s rules we could use latest paid version we got). Even in a case of , why we still have no official comments, list of prohibited countries on the site (e.g. Google Play states availability of services explicitly for each countries) ?
And what is more important, you could start the projects with “freely available for all” UE4 and later USA will add your country to the prohibited list and what then for you ? Lost all your investments ? Of course it is just a politics…
If it really just a matter of politics, why Epic doesn’t just say it, so we could just take the decision what we should do with our projects started with UE4.