UnionPay payment system cards issued by Russian bank Russian Standard will no longer work abroad after the bank was included in the US sanctions list. This was reported by TASS with a link to the bank support service.
A bank employee said, “We are very sorry, but as of November 3, the UnionPay payment system cards issued by the bank will stop working abroad.”
2 November USA extended Sanctions against Russia. 40 people and dozens of legal entities were included in the updated lists. In addition to Russian Standard, it included Pochta Bank, RRDB, Absolut Bank and HKF Bank. In addition, American officials are concerned about the dollar system and the United States St. Petersburg Stock Exchange blocked communications with Arctic LNG 2 LLC and a number of other organizations.
in the USA sanctions imposed Against five Chinese and Hong Kong companies.
in the Kremlin commented He pointed out that the increasing sanctions pressure from the USA is likely to increase in the future.
Previously in the USA appreciated Stability of the Russian economy.