Can UnionPay cards issued in the US be used in Russia?

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I have recently read that Russians are having a hard time using their UnionPay cards in-country, and as we know, UnionPay has stopped cooperating with sanctioned Russian banks. It’s not clear whether those banks that are not sanctioned can still process foreign UnionPay cards for merchants or whether the transactions would flow directly through the Russian national payments system. My guess is that one should not expect UP to work in Russia anymore, though as foreigners we may have an easier time using a UP card there than the Russians themselves.

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