For an affected trader, the most useful document is the notice attached to their own account. A country appearing in an agreement establishes an eligibility restriction; it does not, by itself, tell you when an open position will close or when a withdrawal facility will stop working. The exchanges' public material makes that distinction especially important this week.
MEXC gives individual instructions, not one withdrawal date
The MEXC service update names Russia and Belarus and cites its efforts to improve global compliance. It says affected customers will receive individual notifications explaining the applicable deadlines and procedures for closing positions and withdrawing assets. No common withdrawal deadline appears in that announcement.
MEXC also says an account that has not received a notification is unaffected by this change and may continue using its services, subject to its terms. That qualification matters: the announcement is not permission to disregard eligibility conditions, nor does it establish that every account connected to either country has already been closed.
The company directs account-specific questions to customer service. It does not identify a particular regulator, order or sanctions measure as the cause of this decision, and it gives no number of affected accounts. Those omissions leave the scale and detailed implementation unclear. They do not justify filling in a reason that the exchange has not supplied.
Bitget's reported deadline has already passed
Bitget's current terms, marked as updated on 20 October, include Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan among prohibited countries. The agreement links eligibility to where a person or business resides, is established or operates. It therefore needs to be read as a contractual access rule, not as a statement that holding cryptocurrency is unlawful in each listed country.
In its 17 October announcement, Bitget described closures affecting selected users, with personal notices setting out withdrawal arrangements. Cointelegraph's account of that statement says customers would be contacted by email, in-app messages or push notifications. The statement did not publish a universal deadline or explain how those accounts were selected.
Interfax reported an instruction for notified customers to close positions and withdraw by 10:00 Moscow time on 21 October 2026. That date is now past. It should not be presented as a future opportunity, or as the deadline for every Bitget customer. Anyone holding such a notice needs an account-specific answer about what remains available, rather than an assumption that the earlier withdrawal window continues.
HTX's Russia clause is not a new Belarus announcement
Section 1.2 of the HTX Platform User Agreement puts the Russian Federation in the category barred from all services. For individuals, its definition covers residence or physical location. For businesses, it covers incorporation or the principal place of business. Citizenship alone is not the definition used in that clause.
Belarus does not appear in the reviewed restricted-jurisdiction list. The agreement is marked September 2026, so its wording cannot establish that HTX introduced the Russia restriction on 20 October. It also supplies no Russia-specific withdrawal deadline or grace period. There is no basis here for reporting a simultaneous shutdown of every Russian-linked account.
The contract permits HTX to limit services, restrict withdrawals or transfers, and terminate accounts in specified circumstances, including restricted-jurisdiction status. That power is significant, but it is different from evidence that a particular action has already been taken against a particular customer.
What you can establish from your own notice
Taken together, these documents point to three separate checks: whether your circumstances meet the exchange's eligibility rules, whether you have received a closure notice, and which functions remain available for your account. A general headline cannot answer all three. Keep the relevant notice and ask official support to clarify any missing deadline or instruction.
MEXC's announcement also warns that it will not request payments, passwords, seed phrases or asset transfers through private messages. Use the official site or app to check instructions rather than a link in an unsolicited message. None of the reviewed announcements establishes that another exchange will accept an affected customer. Any replacement service requires its own eligibility check, including the rules applying where you live.
