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It is not only the soldiers at the front who can decide on their own sperm that is frozen, writes Reuters. The soldiers’ spouses and cohabitants also have free access to the sperm banks. It will ensure Russian growth even if fathers die in the war. The initiative comes from Igor Trunov, who heads the trade union of Russian lawyers, according to Al Jazeera. He says that the bar association was called by couples where the man in the family had just been called up to work in Ukraine. The Ministry of Health must have reacted positively to the input from the lawyer. Traveled to sperm banks A Russian man in Rostov who was mobilized for action in Ukraine on 31 October. Photo: SERGEY PIVOVAROV / Reuters Right after President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization of thousands of soldiers this autumn, many of them wanted to freeze their sperm. The sperm banks had far more to do than normal when mobilized men began to visit the sperm banks on their own initiative. The BBC is said to have registered the same tendency. – In the past, it was primarily men who had contracted a chronic illness 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 still become fathers, writes the BBC. They quote the Russian newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets. Visited IVF clinic before fleeing After Putin announced a partial mobilization, around 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 fleeing. Andrei Ivanov at the Mariinsky Hospital in St. Petersburg says the IVF clinic in the city was visited by both mobilized soldiers and by Russian men who had plans to leave the country. The Russian website Fontanka reports the same, about couples who came together to fertility clinics shortly after the order for mobilization. 300,000 In Russia, 300,000 reservists were mobilized for what Putin calls “a special operation” after a series of defeats in the war in Ukraine. It happened even though President Putin signaled for a long time that it was not necessary to mobilize, but only to rely on professional soldiers and volunteers. When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, it was estimated that they attacked with around 150,000 troops.



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