This is the Guardian.

Today, Victoria Amalena was one of Ukraine's most celebrated young writers

who became a war crimes investigator.

What secrets did she uncover?

Charlotte Higgins is the Guardian's chief culture writer.

She's normally based in the UK,

but since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began,

she's been travelling there quite often to speak to artists

about how they're recording what's happening around them.

And during a trip in October,

Charlotte met an author called Victoria Amalena.

She told me about her life,

about how it had changed since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Victoria was one of Ukraine's favourite young novelists and poets.

She'd written about the long history of Russian attacks on Ukrainian artists

and Ukrainian culture.

When the war broke out,

she turned her skills of observation and recording

to document the atrocities that are happening to people now.

She became a war crimes investigator.

In these kind of times of extraordinary violence,

it artists and intellectuals and journalists are targets

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