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.

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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".

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Human rights activists have branded the assault a conflict crime.

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

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

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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.

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"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.

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"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.

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

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

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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".

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

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