Microsoft, which has previously imposed sanctions on Russia, recently announced that all sales of new products and services in the country were suspended.
Russia's attack on Ukraine by taking the decision of a military operation drew the reaction of the whole world. Even though the Russian authorities say, at every opportunity, that our aim is not an invasion, the developments to date show the opposite of this situation. In addition, the expected results from the negotiation talks between the two countries did not come out for now.
With this decision, a bombardment of sanctions began to be applied to Russia, which became the focus of criticism. In particular, world-famous technology companies have decided to cease their activities in the country one after the other in the last few days. Microsoft has recently joined the caravan of those who have imposed sanctions on the country.
Microsoft announces suspension of relations with Russia
As it will be remembered, Microsoft announced that in the first days of Russia's invasion attempt to Ukraine, it blocked the content of state-supported RT and Sputnik sites from news platforms, and that RT's news application was temporarily removed from the Microsoft Store.
Microsoft, which took action to impose stricter sanctions on Russia's failure to withdraw from Ukraine; It announced the suspension of all sales of new products and services in Russia, making a similar decision to technology companies such as Google and Apple.
The company, in a blog post signed by the current president Brad Smith, expressed that they strongly condemned this unjust, unjustified and unlawful invasion of Russia and announced that they will provide support to Ukraine in many points, especially in cyber security.
Microsoft used the following statements in a statement regarding the said sanction decision;
Like the rest of the world, we were horrified, angered and saddened by the images and news from the war in Ukraine. We condemn in the strongest terms this unjust, unjust and unlawful occupation of Russia.
Today we are announcing that we are suspending all new sales of Microsoft products and services in Russia.
In addition, we work in cooperation with governments around the world, and we suspend the majority of our business in Russia in accordance with sanctions.
We believe that the concrete steps we have taken in accordance with the decisions taken by the states have been very effective in helping Ukraine, and we declare that we will take additional steps as this situation continues.
We continue to provide the necessary support to Ukraine to protect its cyber security and prevent attacks from Russia.
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