Emma Graham-Harrison, Olesya Khromeychuk and Philippe Sands talk to Uilleam Blacker

Victoria Amelina was an award-winning Ukrainian writer and human rights activist who was killed by a Russian missile in July 2023. She had been documenting the war and chronicling extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. These stories are told in Looking at Women, Looking at War, of which Amelina had completed around 60% before she was killed.

Our panel discuss Amelina’s life and work, and the impact the war has had on women in Ukraine. Graham-Harrison is the Guardian’s senior international affairs correspondent. Khromeychuk is a historian and writer, director of the Ukrainian Institute London. Sands is Professor of Law at University College London and has been involved in international cases including Pinochet, Yugoslavia, Guantanamo and the Rohingya. Blacker is Associate Professor of Ukrainian and East European Culture at UCL, and author of Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe.