Paul Goble
Staunton, Sept. 12 – Russian veterans of Putin’s war in Ukraine, already suffering an epidemic of HIV/AIDS and other STDS, are likely to spark a new epidemic of those diseases on their return home both because few of them have received treatment and because many have used the huge bonuses Putin has given them on prostitutes while serving and on return.
Despite Moscow’s chariness in releasing data on these plagues among its soldiers in Ukraine, the STD epidemic among Russian troops in Ukraine has been well documented (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/russian-troops-in-ukraine-now-suffering.html and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/09/russian-troops-in-ukraine-now-suffering.html).
And these same investigations have suggested that as more of the 700,000 Russian soldiers who have returned home, they will bring their diseases with them and spread those diseases to the general population. But one aspect of this situation has received less attention and may make it far worse than anyone now assumes.
Because so many of the men serving in Russian forces in Ukraine have been paid enormous sums to join the military and continue to be paid supplements for their participation in the invasion force, they have far more money in their pockets than ever before; and many are spending this new source of cash on prostitutes both in Ukraine and on return home.
The Bumaga portal has documented this (paperpaper.io/kak-vojna-izmenila-seks-uslugi-dve-lich/, reproduced in English translation at meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/12/everything-they-earn-by-killing-they-throw-away-on-prostitutes). If this trend continues, Russia’s HIV infection rate. Already one of the highest in the world is likely to jump in the coming months.
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