Russian troops tortured Oleksii Sivak for weeks, applying electric shocks to his genitals in a freezing basement in his home city of Kherson in punishment for resisting their rule.
When Ukrainian troops freed the city in the autumn of 2022, Sivak was presented with a long list of medical specialists who could help his recovery and asked to tick the ones he needed.
Almost every part of the body and mind was covered, but there were no urologists, doctors who treat male urinary and reproductive organs.
“I asked them: ‘Am I meant to see a gynaecologist?’ I was shocked,” he said. We’ve had a war since 2014 [when Russian proxy forces occupied Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine] and no one had even thought about male victims of sexual violence.”
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