Russian troops sent to Ukraine allowed to freeze sperm

• About 100,000 Russian soldiers have either died or been wounded since the invasion.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation.
• Soldiers will have the right to have their sperm frozen in cryobanks for free.

According to the Russian state news agency TASS, soldiers from Russia who have been sent to fight in Ukraine will have the right to have their sperm frozen in cryobanks for free.

TASS reported on Wednesday that the Russian health ministry had reacted to Igor Trunov’s request for financial support for soldiers who want to use such services. Trunov is the head of the Russian Union of Lawyers.

In accordance with Trunov’s comment, the ministry “evaluated the potential of financial support from the federal budget for free conservation and preservation of germ cells (spermatozoa) for residents mobilised to engage in the special military operation for 2022-2024.”

Russia has called up more than 300,000 reservists to continue its gruelling war effort in Ukraine after suffering a litany of losses and failures throughout its invasion.

The first indications of a rise in sperm freezing demand appeared in a report published in the Russian newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets in October, according to the BBC’s Russian correspondent Steve Rosenberg. The report claimed that after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation to support the war in Ukraine, there had been a surge in sperm freezing.

“In the past, those with chronic illnesses made up the majority of the clientele. Now, healthy men are storing their sperm to ensure that they will always have the chance to become fathers, according to an article from the newspaper cited by Rosenberg.

About 100,000 Russian soldiers have either died or been wounded since the invasion of Ukraine started in February, according to a November estimate by US General Mark Milley. He added that the military in Kyiv “probably” sustained a comparable number of casualties.

In order to avoid being drafted, hundreds of thousands of Russian men fled the country as a result of Moscow’s mobilisation effort, which also spurred anti-Kremlin demonstrations.

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