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More Russian stuff blowing up, plus well-known Ukrainian writer killed in Russian missile attack [1]

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Date: 2023-07-02

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Russian media report an explosion in the area of a military airfield in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar region, Russia. This is an airfield from which drones and missiles are launched on Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/h4KaveKINL

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Hers has been one of the accounts I check regularly on Twitter. This is a terrible loss.

Amelina was in Kramatorsk with a group of journalists from Colombia and was in the Ria Lounge restaurant when it was destroyed by a Russian Iskander missile, killing a dozen people and injured many more. Amelia was injured but later died from her wounds.

Our dearest friend and brilliant Ukrainian writer and human rights activist Victoria Amelina passed away.. killed by a Russian missile.. since RU invasion she has been documenting RU war crimes.. now killed by one of them.. devastating….. https://t.co/sRG2LzcRlT

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Victoria Amelina has expanded her work far beyond literature. In 2022 she joined the human rights organization Truth Hounds. She has been documenting Russian war crimes on de-occupied territories in the Eastern, Southern and Northern parts of Ukraine, in particular in Kapytolivka near Izyum where she found a diary of Volodymyr Vakulenko, a Ukrainian writer killed by the Russians.

During this time Victoria also started working on her first non-fiction book in English. In War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War, which should soon be published abroad, Victoria tells stories of Ukrainian women who are documenting Russian war crimes, and their lives during the war. She also did advocacy work in other countries, calling on the governments of those countries to enhance Ukrainian defense against Russian aggression by supplying weapons to Ukraine, and demanding justice and the international tribunal for all those who organized and committed Russian war crimes in Ukraine. She also raised the issue of commonalities in the anti-colonial fight of Ukrainians and other nations of the world.

Victoria Amelina was born on January 1st, 1986, in Lviv. While still in school, she moved to Canada with her father, but soon decided to come back to Ukraine. In 2007 she received her master’s in computer technology cum laude from Lviv Polytechnic University. In 2005-2015 she worked in international IT companies.

In 2014 she published her first novel, The November Syndrom, or Homo Compatiens. The book was listed in the top 10 of the best prose books, according to the annual rating of LitAktsent, a Ukrainian literature website. It was republished the next year and entered the shortlist of Valeriy Shevchuk Prize.

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