Now, I doubt many people had Russia cut off from Viagra on their Bingo card. But the knock-on effects felt in Russia due to Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine are mounting – and as a consequence, many Russian men wont be mounting anything for a while (pun intended). The U.S. pharmaceutical company Viatris, which manufactures Viagra, had informed the Russian government last year that it would stop selling the drug in tablet form.

Medicines and medical equipment are not subject to sanctions levied against Russia by the United States, Britain, the European Union and other countries following Russia’s invasion. However, Western pharmaceutical companies have warned that supplies of their products to Russia could still be disrupted as a result of the sanctions that have severed Russian banks from the international financial system and have pushed major shipping companies to suspend their operations in Russia. Link to The Washington Post article on this.