Apple will be announcing new products today, however, those items will not be making their way overseas to its customers in a certain country anytime soon. Last Tuesday — in response to the “special military operation” being conducted by Russia’s troops (at the behest of its president, Vladimir Putin) — Apple finally decided to sever its ties with the Russian Federation after the company shut down its online store in the former Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.). According to a report from the BBC, the Cupertino, California-based company has become the latest (at the time) major brand to halt all sales of its products in Russia in what the media outlet described as, “a widening corporate backlash to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.”
