About the Book: Victoria Amelina’s posthumous work, Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice Diary, stands as both a literary testament and a powerful chronicle of resistance. As Russia invaded in February 2022, the novelist and poet—also a mother—transformed into a war‑crimes investigator, traveling to liberated regions, documenting survivor testimonies, and unearthing the buried diary of writer Volodymyr Vakulenko AP NewsWikipediaFinancial TimesУкраїнська правда. On 27 June 2023, she was fatally wounded in a Russian missile strike in Kramatorsk and died a few days later WikipediaFinancial Times. The unfinished manuscript—about 60 percent complete—was assembled by her husband and fellow writers and published in February 2025, featuring her own reflections intertwined with the voices of 11 Ukrainian women documenting war crimes