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Victoria Amelina, an award-winning novelist, assaist and poet, died on the 1st of July

from injuries sustained in a Russian missile attack on a restaurant in Eastern Ukraine.

Generous, talented and funny, Victoria also had an extraordinary moral clarity and commitment

underpinned by vast reserves of unshowy courage.

After the fall-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, she trained as a war crimes researcher,

which meant travelling to frontlines and bearing witness to extreme violence and suffering.

A Ukrainian homeland where all citizens were free was so important to her that she did not hesitate

to give up her own home to fight for it, taking her son to safety outside Ukraine,

then returning to follow the trail of Russian destruction.

In her travels and work, she tried to counter horror with hope, documenting atrocities,

but also organising aid and cultural activities, which she insisted were as important to Ukraine's fight as physical sustenance.

This is an assaist she wrote reflecting on her early life in Lviv and the evolution of her Ukrainian identity.

May her memory be an inspiration to Ukrainians and those who share her ideals.

Emma Graham Harrison, senior international affairs correspondent.

I was the worst investment the Russians ever made.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, many believed that all borders would disappear.

I remember singing Wind of Change by the German band of the Scorpions at an international summer camp near Pskov,

then the Soviet Union in 1990, and feeling like the lyrics truly spoke to me.

The world is closing in, and did you ever think that we could be so close, like brothers?

Well, we're all children of tomorrow, dreaming and believing in a better future. Where are we now?

The winds of change turned out to be nothing more than an illusion, and my belief in it only shows that culturally and mentally.

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