After repairing its war-damaged factory, Mondelez resumes making Oreos in Ukraine

Snack maker Mondelez resumed its production of Oreo cookies in Ukraine, after its plant in a small city in the eastern part of the country was badly damaged during Russia’s invasion roughly two years ago.

Mondelez’s plant in Trostyanets is now fully rebuilt after opening partially last year to make chocolates, according to a company statement.

The company said the Oreo cookies and other chocolates produced at the Ukrainian factory are not being exported to neighboring Russia. Mondelez has three factories in Russia and sells its cookies and snacks there despite boycotts and calls for it to stop from employees, activists and investors.

The company said products made in the Trostyanets plant are exported into Eurasian countries such as Georgia and Kazakhstan in addition to being sold in the domestic Ukrainian market.

Plants in Russia previously helped supply those countries, the source said.

“We continue to increase our investments in supporting and rebuilding Ukraine,” the company said in the statement.

Mondelez previously told Reuters there were no more exports from Russia into Europe.

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