Apple and Google close loophole that allowed Russians to use Mir cards for mobile payments
Apple has closed a loophole that had allowed some Russians to continue using its mobile payments service despite the ongoing economic sanctions against Russia. According to, the company told the country's largest lender on Thursday it would no longer support Russia's homegrown Mir payments system through Apple Pay.
"Apple has informed NSPK it is suspending support for Mir cards in the Apple Pay payment service," the National Card Payment System Friday."Starting from March 24th, users cannot add new Mir cards to the service. Apple will stop all operations of previously added cards over the next few days."The Wall Street Journal
, the company paused a pilot that had allowed Russians to connect their Mir cards to Google Pay."Google Pay is pausing payments-related services in Russia as a result of payment services disruption out of our control," a Google spokesperson told the outlet.
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