the ukrainian writer victoria amelina37 years old, who was one of the victims of the Russian bombardment of Kramatorsk occurred on June 27, has died as a result of injuries sustained in the attack, which killed 13 people, according to local sources.
Amelina was in a pizzeria at the time of the Russian attack in the company of the Colombian writer Hector Abbot and the former High Commissioner for Peace of the Presidency of Colombia, Sergio Jaramillo.
Jaramillo and Abad survived the attack with minor injuries, as did the Colombian journalist catalina gomezwho was dining with them at the time of the missile impact.
Russian forces stuck a popular shopping center beside Hotel Kramatorsk in the city’s center. It housed RIA Pizza, where every correspondent covering the war has probably dined, and businesses including Adidas, Reebok and more. Local authorities say casualties but number unclear. pic.twitter.com/JFT9ymiFwW
—Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) June 27, 2023
The Russian attack on Kramatorsk is one of the deadliest in recent weeks.
The news of the death of the writer has been disseminated by PEN Ukrainea public cultural organization that protects freedom of expression and the rights of Ukrainian journalists, writers, scientists, and other professionals.
“With great pain, we inform you that the heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating on July 1 at the Dnipro Mechnikov Hospital. His life ended due to life-threatening injuries caused by a rocket attack by the Russian occupiers on a restaurant in Kramatorsk on June 27,” according to the PEN Ukraine statement.
[Cuatro muertos y 42 heridos en un ataque con misiles en la ciudad ucraniana de Kramatorsk]
“We communicate this news now that all of Victoria’s relatives have found out and with their consent,” he adds.
Amelina, member of the Ukrainian PEN and war crimes documentarian in the organization Truth Hounds, was in Kramatorsk with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers. While they dined at the Ria Lounge restaurant in the center of the city, the Russian occupiers launched a rocket attack on the building.
“Doctors and paramedics from Kramatorsk and Dnipro did everything possible to save his life, but unfortunately the injury was fatal. In the last days of Victoria’s life, her family and her friends were by her side “of her, according to the Ukrainian organization to which she belonged.
High precision Iskander type missile
Ukrainian PEN and Truth Hounds have claimed that, according to witnesses to the tragedy, the Russians used a high-precision Iskander-type missile for the attack. “They knew for sure that they were shooting in a place where there would be a large concentration of civilians. It is known that 13 people died, about 60 were injured“, has published the PEN on its website.
victoria amelina was born on January 1, 1986 in Lviv and as a child she lived with her father in Canada. In 2007 she studied information technology at the Polytechnic University of her hometown and until 2015 she worked in international technology companies.
In 2014 Victoria’s first novel was published, The November Syndrome or Homo Compatiens. in 2015 gave up his computer science career to pursue writing.
His first children’s book was published in 2016. someone or watery heart and the following year 2017 the second novel was published, Home for Home. This book was shortlisted for national and international awards such as the LitAccent of the Year – 2017, UNESCO City of Literature Prize and European Literature Prize.
Victoria Amelina’s texts were translated into Polish, Czech, German, Dutch and English. The novel was recently translated into Spanish. Home for Home.
In 2021, Victoria became the winner of the Joseph Konrad-Kozhenovsky Literary Prize. That same year he founded the New York Literary Festival in the Bakhmut district of the Donetsk region.
Document war crimes
Due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to the PEN organization, the writer Victoria Amelina joined the human rights organization Truth Hounds in the summer of 2022 to document war crimes in the unoccupied territories of eastern, southern and northern Ukraine, in particular in Kapitolivka in the Izyum region, where he found the diary of the writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was assassinated by the Russians.
According to the biography published by PEN, at the same time Victoria began work on her first non-fiction book in English, War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at Warwhich will soon be published outside of Ukraine.
In it the writer talks about the Ukrainian women documenting war crimes and their lives during the war.
Also, the writer participated in the appeal to the governments of other countries to provide weapons to Ukraine, and also for the creation of a special international court for Russian war crimes against Ukraine.
