Victoria Amelina: Ukrainian writer dies after Kramatorsk strike

The award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries aft a Russian rocket deed a pizza edifice successful the eastbound metropolis of Kramatorsk connected Tuesday.

The warfare crimes researcher becomes the 13th idiosyncratic to person died successful the attack.

The writers' relation PEN Ukraine said doctors "did everything they could to prevention her life, but unluckily the coiled was fatal".

Human rights activists person called the onslaught a warfare crime.

Kramatorsk is nether Ukrainian power but is adjacent to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

Amelina, 37, was eating with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers successful the city's fashionable Ria Lounge erstwhile the rocket hit. Around 60 others were injured successful the attack.

She was rushed to infirmary successful Dnipro, but succumbed to her injuries connected Friday, PEN Ukraine said.

"It is with large symptom that we pass you that the bosom of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating connected 1 July," the radical said successful a statement.

"In the past days of Victoria's life, her household and friends were by her side."

Amelina was 1 of Ukraine's astir celebrated young writers who started documenting warfare crimes aft Russia's full-scale penetration past year. She besides started moving with children adjacent the frontline.

Last twelvemonth she unearthed the diary of children's writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was abducted and killed by Russian troops successful the metropolis of Izyum soon aft the invasion.

Her archetypal non-fiction publication successful English, War and Justice Diary: Looking astatine Women Looking astatine War, is owed to beryllium published.

In an earlier connection confirming that Amelina had been injured successful the attack, PEN Ukraine and warfare crimes watchdog Truth Hounds said that members of some groups had travelled to the frontlines with Amelina.

"Now, Victoria has go a unfortunate of a warfare transgression herself," they said.

"It's maine successful this picture," the station reads.

"I'm a Ukrainian writer. I person portraits of large Ukrainian poets connected my bag. I look similar I should beryllium taking pictures of books, art, and my small son. But I papers Russia's warfare crimes and perceive to the dependable of shelling, not poems. Why?"