"Terrified that the pages of the diary [of Volodymyr Vakulenko] were wet and might not survive, she gave it to the Kharkiv Literary Museum. That experience led her to focus on what she called "cultural war crimes". On her phone she showed me photos of bullet holes in library walls in Kherson. "It's important to see for yourself and write down the stories," she said. "The way you see it from afar is very different to on the ground.""
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Christina Lamb "My friend Victoria Amelina: funny, generous — killed by a Russian missile" The Sunday Times (8 July 2023)
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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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