It’s not just soldiers at the front who can decide on their own frozen sperm, he writes Reuters.
Even spouses and cohabitants of military personnel have free access to sperm banks. It will ensure Russian growth even if fathers die in war.
The initiative comes from Igor Trunov, who heads the union of Russian lawyers, according to Al Jazeera.
He says the bar association was called by couples where the man of the family had just been called to work in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Health must have reacted positively to the lawyer’s input.
I have traveled on sperm banks
A Russian man in Rostov who was mobilized for action in Ukraine on October 31st.
Photo: SERGEY PIVOVAROV/Reuters
Soon after President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization of thousands of soldiers this fall, many of them wanted their sperm frozen.
Sperm banks had much more to do than normal when mobilized men began visiting sperm banks on their own initiative.
BBC must have registered the same trend.
– In the past, it was mainly men who had contracted a chronic disease who wanted to freeze their sperm.
– Now, however, it is healthy men who do it in case something serious happens to them. Then they have the opportunity to become fathers again, writes the BBC. They quote the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets.
I visited the IVF clinic before the flight
After Putin announced a partial mobilization, some 250,000 men chose to flee Russia to avoid being sent to the front.
Many men are said to have visited fertility clinics with their partners before eloping.
Andrei Ivanov of St Petersburg’s Mariinsky hospital says the city’s IVF clinic has been visited by both mobilized soldiers and Russian men planning to leave the country.
The same reports the Russian website Fontanka, on the couples who reunited in fertility clinics shortly after the mobilization order.
300,000
In Russia, 300,000 reservists have been mobilized for what Putin calls a “special operation” after a string of defeats in the war in Ukraine.
It happened even though President Putin has long signaled that it was not necessary to mobilize, but only to rely on professional soldiers and volunteers.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, they attacked with an estimated 150,000 troops.
