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An important point to communicate here is this is based on someone's geographic residence, not their ethnicity or nationality.

An American living in China or Russia would be subject to the same policy of not being hired. A Chinese or Russian person living in Europe would still be eligible for employment.

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IMO 99.9% of remote workers from a country are also citizens of the country. The only difference would be top expat/nomad countries.

The parent comment has never mentioned citizenship, only country of residence and nationality. As long as a Chinese/Russian/etc. national resides in one of the non-banned countries and can get hired just as well as any other national (regardless of whether they have a citizenship of the country they reside in or not), everything is alright in my book, because it has nothing to do with them on a personal level.

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