Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina succumbs to her injuries days after the Russian attack in Kramatorsk

MADRID, 3 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina succumbed to her injuries this weekend after she was found in critical condition with a head injury following a missile attack carried out last Tuesday against a restaurant in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, located in the Donetsk province.

With the death of Amelina, which took place this Saturday as reported by the NGO PEN Ukraine, a total of thirteen deaths have been reported from the attack, while at least 65 people have been injured due to two impacts.

"With our greatest sorrow, we inform you that the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina died on July 1 at the Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipo (...) due to injuries incompatible with life," reads the PEN Ukraine statement, which indicates that publishes the information with the consent of the family.

The NGO has indicated that the Ukrainian writer, who had been documenting Russian war crimes in a project with the 'Truth Hounds' initiative, was in Kramatorsk with a delegation of Colombian writers and journalists having dinner at a restaurant when Moscow launched the attack.

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Amelina had started working on her first non-fiction book in English, titled 'War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War', which tells stories of Ukrainian women who are documenting the Russian war crimes.

Amelina's Spanish publisher, Avizor editions, condemned last Wednesday the "brutal attack" with Russian missiles, which left her seriously injured. The company described her employee as an "excellent writer, a woman fully committed to the defense of Human Rights and the protection of her country's cultural heritage, and with a firm determination to contribute to making the world more humane." .

The writer was accompanied by the former Colombian High Commissioner for Peace Sergio Jaramillo, the writer Héctor Abad Faciolince and the journalist Catalina Gómez Ángel, all of them with minor injuries. The Swedish-British journalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind was also injured, as confirmed by the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which stressed in a message on its Twitter account that "these attacks against civilians and journalists are crimes of war".