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A woman holding a photo of Victoria Amelina walks out of St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in Kyiv after the memorial service. The celebrated Ukrainian writer died after a Russian missile strike at a restaurant in Kramatorsk on June 27. Alex Chan Tsz Yuk/SOPA/Shutterstock

“I really wanted to be the founder of a literature festival in New York”, Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian writer and activist, once told a roomful of Londoners.

In 2021, she did precisely that. The festival wasn’t in New York, US, but in a village with the same name in the Donetsk region, a place where her husband had spent his childhood. Sharp and witty, she syncopated her war stories with dry humour.

Her life of late was dedicated to documenting Russian war crimes. It is her death that documents the latest crime.

On June 27, Victoria was in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, in a pizzeria with a group of fellow writers, when a Russian missile struck the restaurant, which was full of civilians.…  Seguir leyendo »

In front of the Motherland Monument in central Kyiv, Ukraine. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

How did people imagine Ukraine before Feb. 24, 2022? If pressed, some might have conjured mail-order brides and shaven-head gangsters roaming one big post-Soviet Chernobyl. But most probably didn’t think even that; instead, they didn’t imagine Ukraine at all. The country popped up on most people’s radar only in connection to Western political scandals and Russian war making. Few Westerners visited it, and those who did might have concluded — as one Western journalist confessed to me recently — that “Ukraine was just like Russia but without all the crap”.

How do people imagine Ukrainians today? As brave fighters who are standing up to a bully, perhaps, defiant modern-day Cossacks in their colorful embroidered shirts, a bit wild but still safely European.…  Seguir leyendo »

A boy holding a Ukrainian flag as part of a tribute to a soldier killed in action against Russia as his coffin passed the village of Staryi Vovchynets, Ukraine, March 5, 2022. Alexey Furman/Getty Images.

A sardonic joke has been spreading on Ukrainian social media since Russia began its full-scale invasion of the country on February 24. There are several variations, but it basically goes: Maybe now NATO can apply to join Ukraine. While Ukrainians have expressed a strong desire to join the NATO alliance in recent years, this meme flips that expected script, highlighting instead the colossal resistance efforts undertaken by Ukrainians since the invasion began. These efforts have stunned onlookers; the David and Goliath cliché seems actually to apply. Against the enormity of the Russian military, few outside Ukraine expected Ukrainians to put up such a fierce fight, or to maintain control of major cities for as long as they have.…  Seguir leyendo »

In London, a sister remembers her brother killed on Ukraine's frontline. In Glasgow, a truck driver gets a call from his wife in Lviv: war has arrived in their homeland. In New York, a poet who fled Odessa contemplates his mother tongue. And in Kyiv, a journalist bunkers down for the long haul.

For the Ukrainian diaspora, Putin's war resonates deeply. We asked Ukrainians, expats and political experts from across the globe to weigh in. The views expressed in this commentary are their own.

The sister who lost a brother on the frontline

When my elder brother, Volodymyr, joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces, he explained his decision to me: "little one, don't you realize this is a European war.…  Seguir leyendo »