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The Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk has claimed another victim. According to the Ukrainian chapter of the writers’ association PEN, writer Victoria Amelina has died in hospital from serious injuries sustained in the attack. The award-winning writer, who was one of the most impressive voices in Ukraine, was only 37 years old.

“It is with immeasurable pain that we announce the death of Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina on July 1,” wrote PEN Ukraine.

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Amelina was at the RIA Lounge restaurant when a Russian S-300 “Iskander” missile hit the popular eatery last Tuesday. A delegation of Colombian writers and journalists sat with her at the table. The pizzeria was a popular meeting place for development workers, journalists, but also Ukrainian soldiers on leave from the front.

She recently documented Russian war crimes

After the attack, detectives in Kramatorsk arrested a man who allegedly spied on the RIA Lounge for the Russian secret service. It would be a man from Kramatorsk. He is said to have been in the restaurant a few hours before the attack and sent photos of the restaurant to the Russian occupiers with his mobile phone.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has already announced that he intends to punish the alleged agent with all severity. The man faces life imprisonment.

Amelina was taken to a hospital in the city of Dnipro immediately after the missile strike. She suffered severe craniocerebral injuries from which she has now succumbed. According to PEN Ukraine, her loved ones were at her bedside when she died.

Since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression, which violated international law, Amelina had focused primarily on documenting Russian war crimes. Now she herself became a victim of it. She leaves an eleven-year-old son.

With her death, the total number of victims of the Russian attack rose to 13. More than 60 people were injured.