diff --git a/tools/mo/requirements_kaldi.txt b/tools/mo/requirements_kaldi.txt
index 1365904679bd5f..476ec8dab6535a 100644
--- a/tools/mo/requirements_kaldi.txt
+++ b/tools/mo/requirements_kaldi.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 -c ../constraints.txt
-numpy>=1.16.6,<1.27
+# wa: conversion for stateful models is failed on higher numpy versions
+numpy>=1.16.6,<1.25; python_version<"3.12"
+numpy>=1.16.6,<1.27; python_version>="3.12"
 networkx
 defusedxml
 requests