A Ukrainian war crimes researcher and novelist has died from injuries sustained in last Tuesday’s missile attack in the city of Kramatorsk, located in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Victoria Amelina, 37, had been dining at the popular Ria Pizza restaurant with a delegation of Colombian writers and journalists when it was struck by a Russian missile that killed 12 people, including four children, and wounding dozens.
She was rushed to Mechnikov Hospital in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, located in the centre of the country, but succumbed to her injuries on Saturday, making her the 13th fatality in the attack. Amelina is also the latest cultural figure killed in the full-fledged war launched on Ukraine launched by Russia in February 2022.
PEN, a nonprofit organisation that aims to defend and celebrate free expression through literature, announced her death via a statement on Facebook.
“It is with great pain that we inform you that the heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating on 1 July,” the statement read. “In the last days of Victoria’s life, her family and friends were by her side.”
Original from www.aljazeera.com