In the current situation, Sberbank decided to withdraw from the European market,
The bank said in a statement reported by Russian news agencies.
He continued: The group's banks are facing abnormal withdrawals and threats to the safety of their employees and offices.
Britain decided on Tuesday to impose sanctions on Russia's Sberbank, one of the country's largest.
This came after British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced, on Monday, that her country would tighten its sanctions targeting the Russian financial sector in response to the invasion of Ukraine, by freezing The assets of all Russian banks on its territory in the coming days.