A private clinic in Kyiv is waiving the $55 cost of cryopreservation for soldiers battling the Russian invasion.
— As Vitalii Khroniuk lay facedown on the ground taking cover from Russian artillery fire, the Ukrainian solider had just one regret: He had never had a child. Aware that he could die at any moment, the 29-year-old decided to try cryopreservation — the process of freezing sperm or eggs that some Ukrainian soldiers are turning to as they face the possibility that they might never go home.
Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Khroniuk and his partner Anna Sokurenko walk on a street after their visit to a fertility clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 4, 2023.Strelko, who has been in the fertility business since 1998, said the service she is offering soldiers is particularly important now, pointing to"a very aggressive part of this war with massive losses."
Nataliia Kyrkach-Antonenko, 37, got pregnant while visiting her husband in a front-line town a few months before he was killed in battle. Her husband, Vitalii, came home to Kyiv for a short vacation 10 days before his November death and got to see an ultrasound of his unborn baby girl. He also visited a fertility clinic to freeze his sperm.
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