Ukraine's Economic Development and Trade Ministry has said that the instances of non-compliance with Russian law identified by Russia's Federal Consumer Rights Protection Service (Rospotrebnadzor) were not dangerous enough to warrant a ban.

"In our view, the Ukrainian products ought to have access to the Russian market, since, as far as we have seen those potential or hypothetical shortcomings that have been identified are not so dangerous that [Roshen] products should be completely shut out of the market," the ministry said in a statement, citing First Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Anatoliy Maksiuta.

A mechanism ought to be created that would make it possible to avoid such situations in future, he said, adding this might involve creation of a special certification laboratory in order to check products bound for export.

Roshen is already feeling the effects of the ban, Maksiuta said.

Ukraine plans to officially take up the matter with Russia soon.

"We expect that the talks will begin late this week or early next week," he said.