Sunday, 19 April, 2026
Around 7k apps removed from Russian App Store since start of Ukraine invasion
By Basit Ansari
<p>The Russian App Store has lost 7000 apps since the start of the Ukrainian invasion. The apps have been downloaded over 200M times in their lifetime which contributed 3% of the global downloads. The Top Apps chart of the App Store is currently filled with VPN applications. Apple has a strong record of removing outdated and abandoned apps from the App Store but this removal is a 105% increase in the number of apps removed. </p>
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