We can no longer watch the news where they are saying how our men are dying. It is unbearable. The navy wives are protected from the outside world by barbed wire and guards who control access to the Kursk's garrison at Vidyaevo. No one apart from the locals is allowed into the small, shabby town that is home to Russia's most modern submarine fleet. When the men are away, the town turns in on itself.
Unemployment is widespread among the wives and most live through their families.
I believe in my husband. I trust him completely. They must save him soon. I cannot cry any more. That is something you can only do face to face.