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Ukraine Invasion Day 1,082: the catastrophe continues [1]
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Date: 2025-02-08
At the airport, citizens from the countries of the European Union check into the Prague flight and head to the security control area; all Ukrainian citizens are asked to wait. I can recognise the Ukrainians among the Czechs without looking at their passports or hearing them talk. We no longer look like tourists; we are all something else already: refugees, soldiers, or someone else in the middle. We don’t know who we are yet.
In the Prague airport, the border control officer, a young woman, glances at my passport and then stares at me. She seems to be more interested in the expression on my face than in my passport details. Perhaps she is new to the job and has not seen anyone whose country is being bombed. Maybe she is looking not at me but at war.
I am war. We Ukrainians all became a war. Nothing else about us matters now, only it – the catastrophe that has just begun. I buy train tickets to Poland; through worried Europe, I’m heading home to Ukraine. There I will be just myself at war, not war.
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On 27 June 2023, Victoria Amelina joined a delegation of Colombian authors to the Donetsk region. At the end of a long day, they were relaxing in a pizzeria in Kramatorsk. It was hit by a Russian missile, injuring 64 people and taking the lives of 13 others. One of the severely injured was Victoria. She died a few days later, in Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, from the injuries she had sustained.
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