Madrid (BLAZETRENDS).- The Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, 37, who was one of the victims of the Russian bombing of Kramatorsk that occurred on June 27, has died as a result of the injuries suffered in the attack, which cost her life thirteen people, according to local sources.
Amelina was in a pizzeria at the time of the Russian attack in the company of the Colombian writer Héctor Abad and the former High Commissioner for Peace of the Colombian presidency Sergio Jaramillo.
Jaramillo and Abad survived the attack with minor injuries, as did the Colombian journalist Catalina Gómez, who was having dinner with them at the moment the missile hit.
The Russian attack on Kramatorsk is one of the deadliest in recent weeks.
Amelina’s death has been reported by Ukrainian PEN
The news of the writer’s death has been disseminated by Ukrainian PEN, a public cultural organization that protects freedom of expression and the rights of Ukrainian journalists, writers and scientists, among other professionals.
“It is with great sorrow that we inform you that the heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating on July 1 in 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.
“We communicate this news now that all of Victoria’s relatives have found out and with their consent,” he adds.
Amelina, Ukrainian PEN member and war crimes documentarian
Amelina, a member of the Ukrainian PEN and a war crimes documentarian for the Truth Hounds organization, was in Kramatorsk together with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers.
While dining at the Ria Lounge restaurant in the city center, 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 wound was fatal.
In the last days of Victoria’s life, her family and friends were by her side,” according to the Ukrainian organization to which she belonged.
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.
13 people were killed in the attack, some 60 were injured
“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, some 60 were injured”, the PEN has published on its website.
Victoria Amelina was born on January 1, 1986 in Lviv and lived with her father in Canada as a child. 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, “El síndrome de noviembre o Homo Compatiens”, was published. In 2015 she abandoned her career in computer science to dedicate herself to writing.
In 2016 his first children’s book “Someone or a watery heart” was published and the following year 2017 the second novel, “Home for Home” was published.
Received several national and international awards
This book was shortlisted for national and international awards such as the “LitAccent of the Year – 2017”, the UNESCO City of Literature Award and the European Literature Award.
Victoria Amelina’s texts were translated into Polish, Czech, German, Dutch and English. She recently translated the novel “Home for Home” into Spanish.
In 2021, Victoria became the winner of the Joseph Konrad-Kozhenovsky Literary Prize. That same year she founded the New York Literary Festival in the Bakhmut district of the Donetsk region.
Due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to the PEN organization, the writer Victoria Amelina joined the Truth Hounds human rights organization 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 killed 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 War”, which will soon be published outside of Ukraine.
In it the writer talks about Ukrainian women who document 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.