Born: January 1st, 1986 Died: July 1st, 2023 Victoria Amelina, who was wounded in a Russian missile attack in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine on June 27th and died, aged 37, of her injuries four days later, knew that being a writer made her a target for Russia. She was aware that the invading forces had lists of activists and intellectuals to eliminate, but she also understood her country’s history: in March 2022, summoning one of the darkest pages in Ukrainian literary history – the murder of a generation of Ukrainian writers during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, known as...