![]() ![]() Time seemed to slow down as everything fell around us,” Abad told us by phone as he traveled by car from eastern Ukraine to Kyiv, the nation’s capital. “ An explosion jolted us like a bolt of lightning. ![]() Abad, who had traveled to Ukraine as part of a Colombian solidarity mission, told EL PAÍS how he was miraculously unscathed while Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina battles for her life. The attack has claimed the lives of 11 people, including three children, and left over 50 injured. On June 27, a Russian bomb hit the restaurant where he was having dinner in Kramatorsk (Donetsk region), a city near one of the hottest war fronts. But everything changed one fateful evening. Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince arrived in Ukraine firmly believing that he had a new lease on life, a “rebirth” after his open-heart surgery 18 months ago. ![]()
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