“I tried to support him, tried not to cry,” she said. He said he couldn’t promise, but he would do his best.”Two days later, he was killed. It took three months to get his remains back through an exchange of bodies; Ms. Krasovka identified them by one of her husband’s eight tattoos, a skull on his leg. “There was almost nothing left to bury, so we had it cremated,” she said. “We have to bury our military in the right way so that they are remembered, because they gave the most important thing they have, their lives,” Ms. Krasovka said as her voice started to catch.

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