KYIV, Oct. 18 – British American Tobacco (BAT), a large global tobacco manufacturer, halted production at the B.A.T.-Pryluky factory in Chernihiv region on October 11, 2019.

"As a company, we cannot produce products with which we do not know what to do. Because of this, we stopped production [the technical process of shutting down the enterprise was started on October 8]. The factory has been idle for the second week," Director General of B.A.T.-Pryluky Artiom Skrypka said on a local television channel.