The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine has appealed to the international payment systems Mastercard, Visa and American Express with a request to stop servicing all banks in the Russian Federation and Belarus, Minister of Finance Serhiy Marchenko announced on his Facebook page, Report informs referring to Ukrainian media.
“Now I personally addressed the heads of Mastercard, Visa and American Express with a request to stop servicing all banks of the Russian Federation and Belarus. In this situation, sanctions can’t be too much. The adoption of such a decision will make transactions impossible with the cards of these international payment systems and isolate cardholders from the global financial system.”