No progress has been made in resolving the situation involving export of the Ukrainian-based Roshen corporation’s confectioneries to Russia, and the corporation still has not received official notification of Russia’s objections, the corporation’s spokeswoman Inna Petrenko told the RIA Novosti news agency.
Import of Roshen’s confectionery into Russia was banned in late July after the Russian Federal Service for Oversight of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) found violations of quality requirements in products of four of the corporation’s factories selected from retail chains in Moscow.
"The situation has not changed, exports from Ukraine are not taking place, but the products that were previously imported from Ukraine (before the ban) are still being sold because now – summer - is not the sales season, and we supply mainly chocolate products to Russia," said Petrenko.
According to her, it is also too early to determine the damages and losses caused by the suspension of exports to Russia. "We are not yet talking about losses," she said. Meanwhile, Roshen’s Development Director Yevhen Vovchanovskyi said earlier this month that Ukraine could lose about USD 125 million by the end of the year as a result of the ban on import of Roshen’s confectionery products into Russia.
