Ukrainian Writer Andrey Kurkov Recalls Friend Victoria Amelina, Novelist Killed in Russian Airstrike

We remember the acclaimed Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who died as a result of injuries from a Russian strike on a restaurant in Kramatorsk last week, which also killed 12 other people. Amelina was part of a human rights group, Truth Hounds, investigating Russian war crimes. Amelina s friend Andrey Kurkov, a fellow author and the former president of PEN Ukraine, says the young writer s death is just the latest in a long string of artists lost to the Russian invasion. We don t know when the war is going to end, but it will cost a lot for Ukrainian culture, says Kurkov. Transcript: Democracy Now is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1, 500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at Mondays to Fridays 89 a. m. ET. Support independent media: Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: