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Ukraine is a popular choice for couples in the U.S. and other countries in need of a surrogate. Here's why — and how Russia's attack is impacting Ukraine's thriving surrogacy industry.
Operation Ganga was an evacuation mission carried out by the Indian government to rescue its citizens stranded in neighboring countries of Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The citizens were transported from Romania, Hungary, Poland, Moldova, and Slovakia to India with assistance from these countries.
[120] [119] Surrogacy in Ukraine is not regulated in law as commercial, it is more close to altruistic, as the so-called "payment" is not performed to the surrogate mother, it is called a compensation and is not under obligation to pay taxes. The ongoing war and Russian invasion of Ukraine has not stopped the surrogacy industry. [123]
India was a main destination for surrogacy because of the relatively low cost until international surrogacy was outlawed in 2015. [57] Although there are no official figures available, a 2012 United Nations report counted around 3,000 fertility clinics in India. [58] India's surrogacy business was estimated at around $1 billion annually. [58]
Sajad Ahmad Kumar, right, shows a photo of his brother, Azad Yousuf Kumar, who left his village in Indian-administered Kashmir in December after being lured by a false job to fight the war in Ukraine.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a broad range of humanitarian impacts, both in Ukraine and internationally. These include the Ukrainian refugee crisis, the disruption of global food supplies, death and suffering of civilian population, widespread conscription in both Russia and Ukraine, severe effects on Ukrainian society and emigration of Russian population.
Kuleba arrived in New Delhi on Thursday to advance Kyiv's vision of the path to peace in Ukraine and to strengthen ties with India. India has traditionally had close economic and defence ties with ...
The economic scale of surrogacy in India is unknown, but study backed by the United Nations in July 2012 estimated the business at more than $400 million a year, with over 3,000 fertility clinics across India. [8] In 2013, surrogacy by foreign homosexual couples and single parents was banned. [9] In 2015, the government banned commercial ...