2023-07-03 02:35:00
The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, wounded last week in a missile attack on a restaurant in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, died on Saturday in hospital, announced a non-governmental organization this Sunday (2).
“We inform you that the writer Victoria Amelina died on July 1 at the Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro,” said the organization PEN Ukraine, which promotes freedom of expression and literature, in a statement.
“His death was caused by injuries incompatible with life, suffered during the Russian bombing of the restaurant in Kramatorsk”, indicated the same source.
“We released this news after Victoria’s family members were made aware of it and with their consent,” PEN added.
The 37-year-old writer was seriously injured while having dinner at the Ria Pizza restaurant, popular with the military, aid workers and journalists, and was hospitalized in Dnipro with “multiple fractures at the base of the skull”, according to neurosurgeon Vitali Savenkov.
Amelina was accompanied by three Colombians who suffered minor injuries: former peace commissioner Sergio Jaramillo, novelist Hctor Abad Faciolince and journalist Catalina Gmez.
With his death, the number of people killed in the Russian attack on the restaurant in Kramatorsk rises to 13.
Author of several novels translated into different languages, the Lviv-born writer “expanded her work beyond literature” after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and “documented Russian war crimes in the occupied territories”, according to PEN Ukraine.
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