Representatives of nationalistic organizations have barred the entrance to a PJSC Sberbank office in the city of Dnipro in Lenin Street on March 15.
Operation of two bank branches in Kyiv and Dnipro has been suspended by now, the bank press service told Interfax on March 15. “The bank works in routine mode and implements all obligations to its clients. Operation of two bank offices in Kyiv and Dnipro has been temporarily suspended by now. All other bank offices operate as before,” a press service officer said.
The nationalists have bricked up with concrete blocks the entrance to the PJSC Sberbank central office in Volodymyrska Street in central Kyiv earlier this week. They called on the Ukrainian state authorities to deprive Russian banks of their license in Ukraine. The bank offices were temporarily suspended for security reasons.
Furthermore, unidentified assailants have disrupted operation of tens of automatic teller machines of the banks with Russian capital, which operate in Ukraine, in several Ukrainian regions. They have glued the windows and doors of the banks with stickers and have poured construction foam on automatic teller machines.
Ukrainian banks with Russian capital, specifically those controlled by the state, have been repeatedly attacked since the start of the armed conflict in Donbas. The situation has deteriorated after Sberbank of Russia said it was ready to service the holders of passports from the unrecognized Donbas republics on March 7, 2017.
