Svatovo companies begin to supply products to LPR market

Two Svatovo-based companies which were among the first to register in the Lugansk People’s Republic legal space, have begun to supply their products to the LPR market, director of the Light and Food Industry Department of the Republic’s Industry and Trade Ministry Natalia Kalantayenko told reporters.

The “West Management” brewery and the Slobozhanskoye Food Products Plant completed registration in the LPR in March 2022.

“Lugansk People’s Republic government bodies provided comprehensive assistance to companies and supported them in the period of integration in the Republic’s economy,” Kalantayenko said. “Today, the companies already work for the market; having obtained all the required permits, they send their goods to the LPR market. Plans are in place to access the DPR and Russian markets."

She added that the Slobozhanskoye Food Products Plant produces crude and refined sunflower oil, sauces and mayonnaise.  The sunflower oil shop can process up to 10,000 tons of sunflower seeds a year; its packaging capacity amounts to 12 million bottles of finished products. The food plant can also produce more than 3,000 tons of mayonnaise a year.

It employs 60 people and currently produces 37 kinds of products including all kinds of  vegetable oil such as sunflower oil, rape seed oil, corn oil, soya oil etc.

The West Management brewery employs 40 people. It uses the so-called separate fermenting technology where preservation agents or chemical additives are not used. Its capacity is 250 tons of beer per month.

“These companies participate in ensuring the LPR food security,” the Industry and Trade Ministry representative said.

As of May 6, 562 businesses in liberated areas had registered with the LPR State Tax and Revenue Committee.

The Committee spelled out the registration procedure on its website for the economic entities in the areas which were not controlled by LPR government bodies as of February 19.

Earlier, it clarified the work procedure for the businesses in liberated areas and drew a guide for businesses that pay the agricultural tax, in accordance with the LPR law on the Tax System (with amendments).

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Earlier, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance. As of now, some 80 percent of the LPR territory has been liberated.

The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The peace talks participants have announced ceasefire more than 20 times since the autumn of 2014. Kiev forces regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn from the contact line under the accords. *i*t