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UNBELIEVABLE: Victoria amelina - Caught on Camera

In 2022, the world had moral clarity over Russia’s invasion. Now in Ukraine we ask: where has that gone?

We could never have imagined such tolerance of Putin’s criminal war. We normalise the horror just to survive, says Sasha Dovzhyk, a writer, editor and cultural manager

The Guardian - UK

Orwell prize for political writing awarded to novelist killed in Ukraine war

Victoria Amelina wins with her unfinished book Looking at Women Looking at War while Donal Ryan takes the award for political fiction with an intimate portrait of an Irish town

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A Ukranian writer – her life cut short – and a seasoned reporter show the heroism of the ‘people’s war’

“I have just bought my first gun in downtown Lviv,” begins Ukranian writer and war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina’s book, on February 17, 2022. “I’ve heard that everyone is capable of killing and those who say they aren’t just haven’t met the right person yet. An armed stranger entering my…

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina review – a precious and powerful work of literature

This tragically unfinished account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine bears witness to both grave crimes and the strength of the human spirit

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Looking at Women, Looking at War by Victoria Amelina review – in memory of the Ukrainian novelist who catalogued war crimes

A powerful, posthumous collection of diary entries, interviews, war reports and poetry has the late author’s tragic absence at its heart

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Does Putin know why Ukraine fights on? Because we prize freedom above stability and wealth

This long and awful war has taught Ukrainians to love and value their country – and its beauty – even more, says Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov

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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 858

As the war enters its 858th day, these are the main developments.

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‘They burned books, like the Nazis did 80 years ago’: Russia’s deadly attack on Ukraine’s biggest printing house

A Russian missile killed seven people and wiped out the country’s main book printer in May. But moves are already afoot to rebuild Factor Druk

The Guardian - UK

Night Train to Odesa by Jen Stout review – from Ukraine with love

Ordinary Ukrainians and their haunting stories are the heroes of the Scottish reporter’s wonderful hymn to an embattled nation

The Guardian - UK

Love, grieving, intimacy and enduring war: what is the role now for books and writers in Ukraine?

The Lviv BookForum was vibrant this year, but still there is the backdrop of conflict and the need to find a place for storytelling, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

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Rare book donations sought for auction to help Ukraine booksellers

Organisers are also seeking artworks and manuscripts while authors are invited to donate signed first-edition copies of their books for an online auction in November

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A murdered writer, his secret diary of the invasion of Ukraine – and the war crimes investigator determined to find it

When he realised the Russians were coming for him, Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko buried his journal. Then he was taken away never to return. Now, his chronicle has been unearthed …

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She saved the diary of a Ukrainian writer killed by Russia. Then she was killed, too

Award-winning novelist Victoria Amelina, who retrained as a war crimes researcher to document Russian atrocities and preserve Ukrainian culture, has met a tragic end.

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Stalin erased one generation of Ukraine’s artists. Now Putin is killing another – including my friend

An archive holding works by writers purged in the 1930s also hosted Victoria Amelina, lost to a Russian strike this summer, says Guardian culture writer Charlotte Higgins

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War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance by Mikhail Zygar – review

This haunting history explores 350 years of ‘Russocentric exceptionalism’, debunking the myths fuelling Putin’s imperialism

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Russia strikes Lviv, a Ukrainian city far from the frontline; remembering Victoria Amelina

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trudy Rubin: As we celebrated our independence, Ukrainians fought and died to keep theirs

As we celebrated the Fourth of July with hot dogs and fireworks, mourners gathered at Kyiv’s famous St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Cathedral. They were paying last respects to one of Ukraine’s most noted young writers.

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Victoria Amelina, killed by Russian rockets, joins a procession of Ukrainian writers whose lives were cut short by oppressors

Histories of modern Ukrainian literature are often as much about writers’ lives as their works. This is scarcely surprising.

The Independent UK

Vladimir Putin claims Russia ‘united as never before’ as prominent journalist is beaten

Armed and masked men attack Novaya Gazeta reporter Yelena Milashina

The Independent UK

Ukrainians honor award-winning writer killed in Russian missile attack on restaurant

Dozens of people with flowers have come to say goodbye to an award-winning Ukrainian writer who was killed by a Russian missile attack on a popular restaurant in east Ukraine

The Times of India

Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina passes away after being wounded in the Kramatorsk missile strike

Renowned Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has tragically passed away on July 1, 2023, as a result of injuries sustained during a missile strike on a restaurant in Kramatorsk. The news of her demise, shared by PEN Ukraine, has led to an outpouring of tributes honouring both her activism and literary…

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‘Her smile sparkled even in the most difficult times’: novelist Andrey Kurkov on Victoria Amelina

Thanks to her vivacious personality, award-winning novels and tireless human rights activism the young writer’s legacy will live long after her untimely death

Daily Mirror

'Crumbling' Putin's reaction to Wagner rebellion shows he's 'weak' says Zelensky

Volodymyr Zelensky has called the Russian President "weak" and said the "power he used to have is just crumbling down" in scathing new comments about the Wagner rebellion

The Independent UK

Award-winning Ukrainian writer dies of injuries suffered in Russian missile attack on restaurant

The PEN America rights group says award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries suffered after a Russian missile attack on a popular restaurant last week

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