Part of a longer read on The Saker:
Mastercard and Visa withdrew services from Russia, but the Russian cards will work for transactions inside of Russia. Transborder transactions will not be available.
Russian “Mir” cards are accepted in a number of countries:
▫️ Turkey
▫️ UAE
▫️ Vietnam
▫️ Armenia
▫️ Belarus
▫️ Uzbekistan
▫️ Kyrgyzstan
▫️ Tajikistan
▫️ Kazakhstan
▫️ Kyprus
However MIR and Sovcombank signed an agreement with China’s Unionpay back in mid February. These conglomerates are just handing their customers to China and then in a year or two, we are going to see the cry: China took our business, in the same vein of China took our jobs. I cannot believe the insanity.
https://thesaker.is/sitrep-ukraine-dailyish-2/