In January-April 2025, the output of sugar in the Russian Federation fell by 32.3% in annual terms, sunflower oil - by 15.5%, flour - by 7.8%, Rosstat reported in the report “On the socio-economic situation” of the country.

In April alone, according to Rosstat, Russian factories produced 35 thousand tonnes less sugar than a year earlier (-36.1%), 108 thousand tonnes less oil (-15.6%) and 72 thousand tonnes less wheat and wheat-rye flour (-9.1%).

Since the beginning of the war, Russia has experienced food crises three times: in 2023, the price of eggs skyrocketed, and in 2024, the price of butter rose to a 17-year high. In 2025, the situation was repeated with potatoes: due to a poor harvest, by May the price increase for potatoes reached 173% year-on-year and broke records for 23 years of available statistics from Rosstat. Retail chains started buying from China and Mongolia, and the Kaliningrad Oblast authorities introduced a ban on potato exports outside the region.