Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, wounded on Tuesday in a Russian attack on a restaurant in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, died on Saturday, a Ukrainian non-governmental organization (NGO) announced.
“We inform you that the writer Victoria Amelina died on July 1 in the Mechnikov hospital in Dnipro,” the NGO PEN Ukraine, which promotes freedom of expression and Ukrainian literature, said in a statement released on Sunday.
“The death occurred due to injuries sustained during the Russian bombardment” of the Kramatorsk restaurant, added the same source, indicating that the victim’s relatives had already been informed.
The 37-year-old Ukrainian writer was seriously injured during a dinner at the Ria Pizza restaurant, popular with the military, volunteers and journalists, and was hospitalized in Dnipro with “multiple fractures at the base of his skull,” neurosurgeon Vitalii Savenkov said. .
Amelina was in the company of three famous Colombians, all of them with minor injuries, according to the same note.
The writer’s death brings to 13 the number of fatalities in the Russian attack on Kramatorsk, an important railway junction and site of military installations. The attack caused around 60 injuries, according to the Ukrainian authorities.
Born in Lviv, Amelina is the author of novels translated into several languages. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the writer “extended her work far beyond literature” and “documented Russian war crimes in the occupied territories,” PEN Ukraine said.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 last year, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
Source: TSF
