Victoria Amelina’s book War & Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War to be published

The release is planned for spring 2025 by the St. Martin’s Press, an imprint publisher of one of the world’s oldest publishing houses Macmillan Publishers.

The book includes the stories of Ukrainian women involved in the struggle against Russian occupiers, namely human rights advocate Oleksandra Matviichuk, lawyer and military servicewoman Yevheniia Zakrevska, and librarian Yuliia Kakulia-Danyliuk.

"When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country’s literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These heroines include Evgenia, a prominent lawyer turned soldier, Oleksandra, who documented tens of thousands of war crimes and won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, and Yulia, a librarian who helped uncover the abduction and murder of a children’s book author.

Everyone in Ukraine knew that Amelina was documenting the war. She photographed the ruins of schools and cultural centers; she recorded the testimonies of survivors and eyewitnesses to atrocities. And she slowly turned back into a storyteller, writing what would become this book," — the abstract says.

The book War & Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War can be ordered on the publishing company’s website under the link.

Victoria Amelina is a Ukrainian writer, author of the books such as The Fall Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens, Somebody, or Waterheart, Storie-e-es of Eka the Excavator, Dom’s Dream Kingdom etc. Since June 2022, she joined the team of the human rights organization Truth Hounds to document war crimes on de-occupied territories of Ukraine’s east, south, and north. On July 1, 2023, Victoria died from the injuries she received on June 27 during Russian missile attack of Kramatorsk.

In 2024, The Old Lion Publishing House released Amelina’s poetry collection Testimonies.