KIEV, Feb. 9 - Milk Alliance Holding, one of the largest dairy producers in Ukraine, on February 9 suspended cheese production at Pyriatyn cheese plant due to a Russia's ban on the supply of the company's products to the country.

"We have to stop cheese production at Pyriatyn cheese plant from February 9, and refuse to accept deliveries of large volumes of milk that the plant bought from households. We'll continue talks [with Rospotrebnadzor], trying to settle this problem, which we don't understand," reads a holding report issued on Wednesday.