Bloomberg suspends activities in Russia and Belarus, the agency said in a statement.
"Customers in the two countries will not be able to access any of Bloomberg's financial products, including the terminal, data license, data feed, and electronic trading platforms," the statement said.
In addition, Russian stocks have been removed from Bloomberg's global equity indices, and bonds will be removed from fixed income indices later this month, the company said. "Bloomberg.com will not be affected by the suspension," the agency added.
Bloomberg will disconnect Russia from its terminals
Earlier that day, a former employee of the company told RBC that Bloomberg would disconnect Russia from terminals from April 3. The fact that the Bloomberg terminal will refuse customers from Russia since April was also reported by Frank Media. Access to terminals has already been disabled for a number of Russian banks that have fallen under Western sanctions , the sources of the publication specified.