Ukraine battle: Award-winning author Victoria Amelina dies after Kramatorsk missile strike

Award-winning Ukrainian author Victoria Amelina has died from accidents sustained after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in Kramatorsk on Tuesday.

The 37-year-old battle crimes researcher and novelist has turn out to be the thirteenth particular person to die because of the assault.

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Writers’ affiliation PEN Ukraine launched a press release saying medics “did everything they could to save her life, but unfortunately the wound was fatal”.

Human rights activists have branded the assault a battle crime.

Kramatorsk is beneath Ukrainian management however is near Russian-occupied areas of the nation.

Amelina was eating with a gaggle of Colombian journalists and writers within the Ria Lounge when the missile hit.

Around 60 others have been additionally injured within the strike.

She was taken to hospital in Dnipro, however succumbed to her accidents on Friday, PEN Ukraine mentioned.

“It is with great pain that we inform you that the heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating on 1 July,” the group mentioned in a press release.

“In the last days of Victoria’s life, her family and friends were by her side.”

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Amelina was a celebrated younger author who has been documenting alleged battle crimes for the reason that Russian invasion of 2022. She additionally began working with kids close to the frontline.

Her first non-fiction e-book in English, War And Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking At War, is because of be revealed.

A publish on her Twitter web page reveals Amelina taking a photograph of a bombed out constructing in Ukraine.

In the publish, she describes herself as “a Ukrainian writer. I have portraits of great Ukrainian poets on my bag. I look like I should be taking pictures of books, art, and my little son”.

“But I document Russia’s war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems. Why?” she provides.