Vladimir Zelensky posthumously awarded the award “For Merit” of the 3rd degree to the writer Victoria Amelina, the writer Vladimir Vakulenko, the poet Maxim Krivtsov, and the actor Vasily Kukharsky.
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The corresponding decree was published on the president’s website.
Amelina, who died as a result of Russian shelling of RIA Pizza in the center of Kramatorsk, after the de-occupation of Izyum by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, found the diary of children’s writer Vladimir Vakulenko-K, where he shared moments of the occupation of his hometown by Russian invaders.
The man himself died as a result of torture inflicted by the Russians. Vakulenko’s body was found buried in the Izyum forest.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Victoria has been documenting war crimes, working with children on the front lines, and hoping to revive the literary festival she founded in front-line New York.
Maxim Krivtsev is a machine gunner, special forces special forces, poet and photographer. Participant in the Revolution of Dignity in 2013-2014, volunteer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Subsequently, he worked at the Center for Rehabilitation and Readaptation of ATO and JFO Participants and the Veteran Hub. In 2022, he again volunteered to go to the front.
In 2023, the publishing house “Our Format” published his first full-fledged collection, “Poems from the Loophole.” Poems by Maxim Krivtsov were also published in collections with other poets: Book Love 2.0. Love and War”, “Where Home is: 112 Poems about Love and War”, “Lullaby 21st Century Vol. 1: what lulls you to sleep?”, “Between the sirens. New poems of war.” In 2023, the team of the Babylon13 film association also filmed two of his texts: “He moved to Bucha” and “I hitchhiked.”
Source: Racurs
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