[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Russian spending on erectile dysfunction drugs surged 75 per cent year on year
- The findings coincide with Putin's invasion of Ukraine and conscription laws
On average, there were 392 packs of such drugs per thousand adult men living in Russia in the first quarter of 2023,' noted Chestny Znak analysts.
The rise in use of such drugs comes despite a 'blow below the belt' to Putin with a February announcement that supplies of Viagra tablets were suspended to Russia.
'Viatris LLC informed us about the suspension of the supply of the Viagra drug in the dosage form of a tablet,' the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade said, reported Interfax.
Yet this triggered a 50 per cent increase in sales of the potency-enhancing drug, said Chestny Znak. There was no chance of couples being let down by a lack of supplies.
'Available stocks are sufficient to meet the current level of demand for eight months,' explained state news agency TASS.
'During this time, suppliers of equivalent drugs can increase the volume of supplies and replace Viagra in Russian pharmacies with their products.'
There are also signs that Viagra and other similar Western drugs are reaching Russia via other countries including Kazakhstan and China.
The dictator himself is believed to favour another method of boosting potency, after being introduced to blood baths by his defence minister Sergei Shoigu, a Siberian native.
Putin is reported to have fathered children with lover Alina Kabaeva, 39, in 2015 and 2019 - and some accounts say there are more children.
Rather than a little blue pill, this method involves bathing in a bath of moral deer blood gathered when the animals' antlers are severed in Siberia. 
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