The company said in a press release Tuesday that it will suspend all business in Russia, coming on the heels of backlash against the company for its Russian business ties from as high up as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The company that has its headquarters in Germany announced plans to leave Russia.
The last remaining link to the country will be the end of the support and maintenance of its on-premise Russian software products.
Zelensky said last month that Western technology companies were supporting the Russian aggression by providing support to its products in Russia.
All sales in Russia were stopped on March 2 and the end of the cloud computing services was announced on March 24.
The market value of the company is more than $125 billion. An analysis of the revenue of Russia's 100 largest companies by revenue found that 53 of them used the services of the German company. A Forbes review found that several companies were hit by international sanctions. The Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov of Ukraine accused the company of continuing to work with Russian companies, though it wouldn't confirm if they continued to use its technology or support services. According to a list compiled by a Yale University professor, most international companies have stopped doing business in Russia, but 195 of them have refused to change their minds.
Microsoft has not yet announced a suspension to its support services in Russia, while Oracle said in March that it had stopped operations in Russia, including access to customer support and software updates.
The $120 billion software giant says it stopped working with Russian banks. Ukraine wants it to do more.
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