“We inform you that the writer Viktoria Amalina passed away on July 1 in the Metznikov Hospital in Dnipro,” the NGO PEN Ukraine, which promotes freedom of expression and literature in Ukraine, said in a statement.
Ukrainian writer Viktoria Amalina, who was injured on Tuesday in a Russian attack on a restaurant in the city of Kramatorsk (east), succumbed yesterday Saturday, a Ukrainian non-governmental organization announced yesterday Sunday.
“We inform you that the writer Viktoria Amalina passed away on July 1 in the Metznikov Hospital in Dnipro,” the NGO PEN Ukraine, which promotes freedom of expression and literature in Ukraine, said in a statement.
“Her death was caused by non-life-threatening injuries sustained during Russia’s bombing” of the restaurant in Kramatorsk, the same source added.
“We are announcing this news after all members of Victoria’s family have been informed and with their consent,” he added.
The 37-year-old Ukrainian writer was seriously injured while dining at the Ria Pizza restaurant, popular with the military, journalists and others, and was taken to a hospital in Dnipro with “multiple fractures at the base of the skull,” neurosurgeon Vitaly Savenkov said.
The writer was with three celebrities from Colombia, who suffered minor injuries.
The death of the writer brings to 13 the official death toll of the Russian attack on the restaurant in Kramatorsk.
A creator of novels that have been translated into other languages, the Lviv-born author had “expanded her work beyond literature” after the Russian military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, “documenting Russian war crimes in the occupied territories,” she added in its announcement by PEN Ukraine.
Source :Skai
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