The Security Service of Ukraine explained that this refers in particular to Russian social networks “developed by legal entities subject to economic and other restrictive sanctions”.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SSU) has asked Google and Apple to consider blocking Russian mobile applications.
“The Security Service of Ukraine has initiated blocking of prohibited Russian applications on electronic platforms of Google and Apple”, – the official Telegram-channel of the SSU said.
In particular, the Ukrainian special services appealed to companies Google and Apple on the issue of “the distribution of mobile applications on their services Play Market and App Store, including Russian social networks developed by legal entities, in respect of which there are economic and other restrictive sanctions”. The SBU also requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to “inform foreign partners operating in Ukraine about compliance with the requirements of current legislation”.
On 15 May 2017, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko approved the decision of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine to extend the sanctions list to 1,228 individuals and 468 legal entities. It included a number of State Duma deputies, journalists and judges of the Constitutional Court. At that time the Russian social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, Mail.ru, Yandex and Yandex were also banned. Yandex, Yandex. Ukraine”.
The document prescribed that providers should be prohibited from providing users with access to these resources. Restrictive measures also affected the company “1C”, which specializes in the development and supply of software for business production, and ABBYY, which is engaged in developments in the field of text recognition, linguistics and electronic dictionaries.
In May this year, President Volodymyr Zelensky put into effect the decision of the National Security Service of Ukraine to extend the ban on access to Russian websites and social networks for another three years.