In 2023, Azerbaijan significantly ramped up its imports of various milk powders from Russia, with skim milk powder purchases increasing 127 times to 1.2 thousand tons, whole milk powder 124 times to 0.9 thousand tons, and whey 10.6 times to 0.4 thousand tons. Russia's primary buyers of powdered milk were Kazakhstan, Armenia, Georgia, and China, and new markets opened up in Algeria for skim milk powder, and Egypt and Tunisia for whole milk powder.