Apple to halt sales and limit services in Russia

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Apple is the latest company to stop selling products in Russia due to the country&s invasion of Ukraine.

The iPhone giant said it was deeply concerned about the Russian invasion and stands with those who have suffered.

Apple Pay and other services have been limited.

Russian state-funded publishers have been removed from the features of the internet giant.

RIA agency says that Russian mobile banking apps may not function fully on devices using Apple's iOS operating system.

Apple said in a statement that it had disabled traffic and live incidents in Apple Maps in Ukraine as a precautionary measure for Ukrainian citizens.

Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov asked Apple to remove Russia from its products, services, and App Store after he published an open letter to the company on social media.

I’ve contacted @tim_cook, Apple's CEO, to block the Apple Store for citizens of the Russian Federation, and to support the package of US government sanctions! If you agree to have the president-killer, then you will have to be satisfied with the only available site Russia 24. pic.twitter.com/b5dm78g2vS

— Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) February 25, 2022

News firms funded by the Russian government had their advertising tools and features restricted by Google.

The company wrote in a post that they are committed to complying with all sanctions requirements.

The company said that it was limited in the country for people using banks that were not approved by the government. There is no restriction on the use of the pay service in Russia.

Most of the company's services, like Search, Maps and YouTube, are currently available in Russia.

Nike has stopped sales in Russia. Purchases on the company's website and app were unavailable in Russia because the firm could not guarantee delivery of goods to the country.

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Container shipping to and from the country was suspended on Tuesday by the biggest shipping firms in the world. The UK has banned ships from Russia.

Russia supplies a sixth of the world's commodities so it will be cut off from a significant part of shipping trade.

Harley- Davidson suspended shipments of its bikes to Russia.