Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina died following injuries sustained in the Russian bombing of the Kramatorsk pizzeria on June 27. Thus the toll of the missile raid in which 60 other people were injured is 13 civilians dead. “Doctors did everything possible to save her life, but the wound was fatal. Her heart stopped beating on July 1,” wrote Pen Ukraine.
Amelina, who was born 37 years ago in Lviv, was having dinner with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers at the time of the attack. She was rushed to a hospital in Dnipro.
She was one of the most prominent young writers in her country. Last year, she began documenting invading Russian forces and working with children near frontline areas. And she had recovered the diary of children’s writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was kidnapped and killed by Russian forces in Izyum shortly after the war began. You had founded two literary festivals in Nju Jork and Kramatorsk in Donbass.
