Apple has halted sales of its products in Russia in response to the country's invasion of Ukraine.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is deeply concerned with the people who are suffering as a result of the violence, and they are providing aid to those affected by the crisis, the company said in a statement.
The statement said that we have taken a number of actions in response to the invasion. We stopped all product sales in Russia. We stopped all exports into our sales channel last week. Apple Pay and other services have been limited. The company said that it is in communication with governments about the actions we're taking. Tech companies are facing increasing pressure to join in cracking down on Russia over its aggression.
On Tuesday, Google confirmed to Reuters that it had removed RT News and other state-owned Russian media from its news-related features after earlier restricting them from advertising tools and other features on YouTube.
RT News deputy editor-in-chief Anna Belkina hit out at the firms over the actions, telling Reuters that the tech companies that have restricted her outlets have not pointed out a single grain of evidence that what RT has reported over these days is not true. She said that the collective establishment seems to be terrified of the presence of any outside voice for the fear of losing their historically captive audience if that audience encounters a different perspective.