@Ian35187 I am guessing that you are wanting to cancel due to Airbnb withholding payments from you whilst taking their own ‘sweet time’ to verify what is already extremely obvious on your listings, and no doubt on your account. ie, that you are not Russian and that you were a host long before the Ukrainian/Russian conflict started. And as much as I sympathise with your guests who have probably not done anything wrong and don’t deserve to have their holiday come to an abrupt end. I have a great deal more sympathy for you not getting paid whilst still trying to pay the bills and be a Superhost. Please feel free correct me if I am wrong. Regardless, Airbnb should be ashamed!
Hopefully your request to Airbnb to cancel on your behalf will give them the boot up the derrière that they need. The only other way to cancel is to do it yourself, which will almost certainly cost you your Superhost status which is also an outrageous option under the circumstances.
Although it will be little comfort right now, they do seem to be slowly, at the pace of a snail with a superglued bum, trawling through Ukrainian Hosts accounts and reinstating payments so I would hope that you do get paid in due course. In the meantime, in your position I would probably keep on at them.
