The Donetsk-based Ukrainian Committee on Kashrut announced the production of two new lines of kosher cheeses for distribution in the former Soviet republic.

The new Druzhba and Yantar spreadable cheeses will be certified as chalav yisrael, meaning that in the keeping with the strictures of Jewish dietary law, milk used in the production will be under kosher supervision at all times.

Directed by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yehoshua Vishedski and operated under the aegis of the Chief Rabbinate of Ukraine, the committee’s employees control the entire manufacturing process of dairy products under its supervision.

With a name that translates as “friendship,” the Druzhba cheese will be packaged in traditional 100-gram rectangular briquettes. The Yantar cheese – its name means “amber” – can be bought in tubes of 350 grams. The new lines come less than six months after the committee supervised the introduction of the Delicatessen Brynza and Bulgarian Brynza cheeses to the kosher market.