The Kremlin has bizarrely offered to splash its cash on freezing Russian soldiers’ sperm in the likely case they will die fighting in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s free semen freezing incentive is to encourage more Russian men to join his illegal invasion of Ukraine without fear they won’t be able to have kids of their own.
The Kremlin has also said it will pay for troops’ wives to have IVF if their partners do indeed die fighting for the warmonger Russian President, reports the Telegraph.
On Wednesday, head of the Union of Lawyers of Russia Igor Trunov said the Government had given its support to his proposal to “create a free cryobank of genetic material” for troops – and to bump spouses up the list for state-sponsored IVF.
[Too good to check? Maybe. But with Putin killing tens of thousands of young men in his vainglorious attempt to conquer Ukraine, Russia will worsen an already extant fertility crisis. — Ed]
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