Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, injured on Tuesday in a Russian strike against a restaurant in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, died on Saturday, a Ukrainian non-governmental organization announced on Sunday.
“We inform you that the writer Victoria Amelina died on July 1 at the Mechnikov hospital in Dnipro,” said the NGO PEN Ukraine in a press release, which promotes freedom of expression and Ukrainian literature in particular.
“Her death was caused by injuries incompatible with life, which she received during the Russian bombing” of the restaurant in Kramatorsk, adds the same source. “We are announcing this news now that all of Victoria’s family members are aware of it and with their consent.”
The 37-year-old Ukrainian writer was seriously injured while dining at the Ria Pizza restaurant, popular with the military, volunteers and journalists, and was hospitalized in Dnipro with ‘multiple basal skull fractures’ , reported the neurosurgeon Vitaliy Savenkov.
Victoria Amelina was in the company of three Colombian personalities, all three slightly injured according to a press release. The death of the writer brings to 13 dead the toll of the Russian strike on the establishment of Kramatorsk.
Author of novels translated into several languages, the Lviv-born author “had extended her work far beyond literature” since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and “documented Russian war crimes in the occupied territories” , says PEN Ukraine.
