Then, on Wednesday, a naval spokesman conceded the submarine Kursk lost contact on Saturday. Felgenhauer said the navy's behaviour this week has made all its statements suspect - including its insistence that the submarine's nuclear reactors were turned off and that it wasn't carrying nuclear weapons. We don't know if that's true. Naval officials have also refused to release a list of the sailors aboard, leaving many relatives to wonder desperately. Anna Kubikova, the mother of a sailor, has been unable to find out whether her son was aboard the Kursk, she told the RTR television network.
Many sailors are young conscripts who are sometimes moved from ship to ship with little warning.
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