"It's me in this picture, I'm a Ukrainian writer. I have portraits of great Ukrainian poets on my bag. I look like I should be taking pictures of books, art, and my little son. But I document Russia's war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems. Why?"
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A tweet note (4 June 2023) pinned to her Twitter account referring to her work documenting war crimes. It was reported following her death in July 2023 from injuries sustained after a Russian precision missile targeted a restaurant in frequented by journalists and writers.
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Victoria Amelina
Victoria Amelina (Ukrainian: Вікторія Амеліна, née Shalamai; 1 January 1986 – 1 July 2023) was a Ukrainian writer. She was the author of two novels and a children’s book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award, and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.
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