Victoria Amelina: Ukrainian writer dies after Kramatorsk strike

The award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday.The writers' association PEN Ukraine said doctors "did everything they could to save her life, but unfortunately the wound was fatal".Kramatorsk is under Ukrainian control but is close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

Amelina, 37, was dining with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers in the city's popular Ria Lounge when the missile hit. Around 60 others were injured in the attack."It is with great pain that we inform you that the heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating on 1 July," the group said in a statement.Amelina was one of Ukraine's most celebrated young writers who started documenting war crimes after Russia's full-scale invasion last year.

Last year she unearthed the diary of children's writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was abducted and killed by Russian troops in the city of Izyum soon after the invasion. Her first non-fiction book in English, War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War, is due to be published. In an earlier statement confirming that Amelina had been injured in the attack, PEN Ukraine and war crimes watchdog Truth Hounds said that members of both groups had travelled to the frontlines with Amelina.shows Amelina taking a photo of a bombed building in Ukraine."I'm 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.

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