“It’s not scary to die, but it’s scary when you don’t leave anyone behind.' Vitalii Khroniuk is among a group of Ukrainian soldiers who are freezing their sperm as they face the possibility that they may never go home.
the Ukrainian solider had just one regret: He had never had a child.
During a vacation home in January, he and his partner went to a private clinic in Kyiv, IVMED, that is waiving the $55 cost of cryopreservation for soldiers. The clinic has had about 100 soldiers freeze sperm since the invasion, says its chief doctor, Halyna Strelko. Assisted conception services to get pregnant currently cost $800 to $3,500.
Sokurenko and Khroniuk married a few days after their clinic visit, and he is now fighting in the Chernihiv region near the border. She believes that a chance to have a child, even after a partner is killed at war, could smooth the deep pain of loss. Kyrkach-Antonenko hopes to eventually have another child using that sperm. She said being able to have her late husband’s children “is an incredible support.”She also sees cryopreservation as a fight for the country’s future.
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