They don't officially sell any hardware here since 2022. Every iPhone and Mac sold in Russia since then is grey import and costs accordingly, around 1.5x the Apple price.
Otherwise Apple risks their online properties getting blocked and iOS devices becoming useless because of how iOS assumes it can always access Apple servers.
So it's okay for you for all Russians to end up with devices we can't use without a non-trivial setup with a router that wraps all traffic into a VPN, all so that Apple could prove a point?