Ukrainian author dies after Russian missile strike on Kramatorsk pizzeria
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n award-winning Ukrainian author has died from her accidents after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant within the jap metropolis of Kramatorsk.
Victoria Amelina, 37, a battle crimes researcher, turned the thirteenth particular person to die from the assault on Tuesday.
She had been eating with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers within the metropolis’s well-liked Ria Lounge when the missile hit.
Around 60 others have been injured within the assault, whereas others to die included twin sisters Anna and Yuliia Aksenchenko.
Human rights activists have branded the assault a battle crime.
The aftermath of a Russian missile assault in Kramatorsk
/ by way of REUTERSMs Amelina was rushed to hospital in Dnipro, however succumbed to her accidents on Saturday, 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 an announcement.
“In the last days of Victoria’s life, her family and friends were by her side.”
Amelina was one in every of Ukraine’s most celebrated younger writers who began documenting battle crimes after Russia’s full-scale invasion final yr. She additionally began working with kids close to the frontline.
Last yr she unearthed the diary of kids’s author Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was kidnapped and killed by Russian troops within the metropolis of Izyum quickly after the invasion.
Her first non-fiction ebook in English, War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War, is because of be printed.
A publish pinned to her Twitter profile exhibits Amelina taking a photograph of a bombed constructing in Ukraine.
“It’s me in this picture,” the publish reads.
“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. But I document Russia’s war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems. Why?”