'Russia is waking up': a tango-dancing soldier's wife finds purpose on Russian home front
Natalia Yermakova's husband, Alexander, has been fighting in Ukraine for over a year after responding to President Vladimir Putin's mobilisation call. Now his wife, who shares his love of tango dancing, is doing her own bit for the war effort: toiling as a volunteer in a "Family Battalion". One of a group of around 40 mostly female relatives of mobilised men in Moscow who give up their free time to help out, she threads camouflage netting, makes signs to mark minefields, gathers candles to be used in trenches and dug-outs, and puts food parcels together.