Some Russian bank customers have been cut off from Apple Pay and Google Pay

Financial sanctions from several countries bar some card payments through Google Pay and Apple Pay. | Photo By Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Customers at a number of banks in Russia can no longer use their bank cards with Google Pay and Apple Pay due to newly-imposed financial sanctions on the country, as reported by Insider. According to a press release from Russia’s Central Bank, affected financial institutions include VTB Group, Sovcombank, Novikombank, Promsvyazbank, and Otkritie FC Bank.

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While customers can still use bank cards from these institutions within Russia, they’ll no longer work abroad or when making online payments to stores and services belonging to countries that issued sanctions on Russia. This also includes card payments through Apple Pay and Google Pay, although the Central Bank says...

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