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Despite Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's retail, food processing, and food service sectors are functioning. The retail sector is working to maintain an assortment of imported products. Fish and other seafood, beef, nuts, food ingredients, whiskey, beer, snacks, and pet food imports are growing.

Matching import restrictions imposed by several EU member states on Ukrainian grains, oilseeds, and poultry, Ukraine adopted export licensing and export quotas for 2025. Ukraine’s measures are designed to prevent the triggering of EU safeguard measures envisaged by EU Regulation 2024/1392.

After a series import of bans on potatoes, sunflower seeds and soybeans, Russia’s food safety authority, Rosselkhoznadzor introduced a complete ban on all products subject to quarantine control.

Production and exports of cheese in 2014-15 is expected to decrease significantly due to Russia’s import ban.