Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, 37, who was one of the victims of the Russian bombardment of Kramatorsk occurred on June 27, has died as a result of the injuries sustained in the attackwhich cost the lives of thirteen people, according to local sources.

Victoria Amelina will be in critical condition with a head injury after a missile attack carried out last Tuesday against a restaurant in said Ukrainian city, located in the province of Donetsk.

With the death of Amelina, which took place this Saturday as reported by the NGO PEN Ukraine, a total of thirteen deaths have been reported from the attack, while at least 65 people have been injured because of the impacts.

“With our greatest sorrow, we inform you that the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina died on July 1 at the Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipo (…) due to injuries incompatible with life,” reads the PEN Ukraine statement, which indicates that publishes the information with the consent of the family.

The NGO has indicated that the Ukrainian writer, who had been documenting russian war crimes in a project with the ‘Truth Hounds’ initiative, he was in Kramatorsk with a delegation of Colombian writers and journalists having dinner at a restaurant when Moscow launched the attack.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Amelina had started working in his first nonfiction book in English, titled ‘War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War’, which tells stories of Ukrainian women who are documenting Russian war crimes.

The Spanish publisher of Amelina, Avizor editions, condemned last Wednesday the “brutal attack” with Russian missiles, which seriously injured him. The company described its employee as an “excellent writer, a woman fully committed to the defense of Human Rights and the protection of her country’s cultural heritage, and with a firm determination to contribute to making the world more humane.”

The writer was accompanied by the former Colombian High Commissioner for Peace Sergio Jaramillo, the writer Héctor Abad Faciolince and the journalist Catalina Gómez Ángel, all of them with minor injuries.

was also injured Swedish-British journalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind, as confirmed by the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which stressed in a message on its Twitter account that “these attacks against civilians and journalists are war crimes.”