Ukrainian writer dies after Kramatorsk strike

She was rushed to hospital in Dnipro, but succumbed to her injuries on Friday.

In Summary

•Kramatorsk is under Ukrainian control but is close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine

•She was rushed to hospital in Dnipro, but succumbed to her injuries on Friday.

Victoria Amelina was one of Ukraine's most celebrated young writers
Victoria Amelina was one of Ukraine's most celebrated young writers
Image: GETTY IMAGES

Award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina,  has passed away.

According to BBC,  she dies on Tuesday last week after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk.

Kramatorsk is under Ukrainian control but is close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

The war crimes researcher now becomes the 13th person to have died in the attack.

As reported by BBC, the writers' association PEN Ukraine said doctors "did everything they could to save her life, but unfortunately, the wound was fatal".

Human rights activists have called the attack a war crime.

At the time the missile hit the restaurant, the 37-year-old was dining with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers in the city's popular Ria Lounge when the missile hit.

At least 60 others were injured in the attack, as reported by BBC.

She was rushed to hospital in Dnipro, but succumbed to her injuries on Friday, PEN Ukraine said.

"It is with great pain that we inform you that the heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating on 1 July," the group said in a statement.

Amelina was one of Ukraine's most celebrated young writers who started documenting war crimes after Russia's full-scale invasion last year. She also started working with children near the frontline.

BBC stated that last year she unearthed the diary of children's writer Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was abducted and killed by Russian troops in the city of Izyum soon after the invasion.

Her first non-fiction book in English, War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War, is due to be published.

WATCH: The latest news from around the World