According to the Daily Mail, Vyacheslav Povetyev (29) and Rimma Gayazova (27) were together in the Russian city of Kaliningrad last weekend. Vyacheslav was visiting their son.

A man is struggling to recover after a vicious knee to his groin by his ex-wife resulted in him losing one of his balls. They were going up in a lift together when they started to argue.

According to Rimma, Vyacheslav started the fight, grabbing her by the neck and trying to take the child from her. She claims she defended herself by kneeing him in the groin.However, he ended up in the hospital and she is facing a criminal investigation. The force of the knee’s impact on his genitals was so strong it ripped the scrotum and badly damaged one ball.

Doctors were forced to remove the savaged ball. Rimma faces up to three years in jail if found guilty of “the intentional infliction of moderate bodily harm”. Reports say that the ex-husband complained to police that he had “became infertile and suffered psychological harm” after the incident which left him “half castrated”.