Have received notifications telling me all my foreign cards have stopped working on Russian services, mainly Yandex.
Foreign friends telling me their cards started being declined in person at checkouts last night.
Others saying some Russian banks now cut off from ApplePay.
From a Russian friend
“Well, that’s not exactly true”
Have also heard from a friend he is out at lunch for a meal with his family. Three times his card had been declined.
Given the scale of death and destruction across the border, impossible to see this a genuine problem, but shows Russia being cut off/cutting itself off fast
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Worth caveating that Kommersant, which is one of Russia's best and most reputable broadsheets, cites anonymous foreign ministry sources here. The British embassy has apparently not commented.
For anyone unfamiliar with the geography of southern Russia, this would be a little bit like denying British sovereignty over Norwich, if Norwich had better weather and more of an association with criminal gangs (in the case of Rostov).