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

Jul 03, 2023 at 5:02 AM
Ukraine conflict: 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 conflict crimes researcher and novelist has turn out to be the thirteenth person to die as a result of the attack.

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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 conflict crime.

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

Rescues and volunteers wort at the site of hotel and restaurant buildings heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in central Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine June 27, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr Ratushniak
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The aftermath of the Kramatorsk assault

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

Around 60 others had been additionally injured within the strike.

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

“It is with great pain that we inform you that the heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating on 1 July,” the group stated 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 conflict crimes for the reason that Russian invasion of 2022. She additionally began working with kids close to the frontline.

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

Police and rescue workers walk in front of a restaurant RIA Pizza destroyed by a Russian attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine Pic:National Police of Ukraine/AP
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Pic: National Police of Ukraine/AP

A put up on her Twitter web page exhibits Amelina taking a photograph of a bombed out constructing in Ukraine.

In the put up, 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.