Viktoria Amelina, a well-known Ukrainian writer, died of her injuries last Tuesday following a Russian strike at a restaurant in Kramatorsk, in the east of the country.

“We inform you that writer Viktoria Amelina died on July 1 at Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro,” PEN Ukraine, a non-governmental organization that promotes freedom of expression and Ukrainian literature in particular, announced in a statement late Sunday.

The organization added: “His death resulted from injuries sustained during the bombing of the Russian restaurant Kramatorsk”.

The 37-year-old Ukrainian writer was seriously injured while eating at Ria Pizza, which is particularly popular with the military, volunteers and journalists, and was taken to a hospital in Dnipro with “multiple skull fractures,” according to neurosurgeon Vitaly Savinkov.

According to a report, three Colombians with Amelina were slightly injured. With the writer’s death, the death toll from the Russian strike on the facility in Kramatorsk has risen to 13, Agence France-Presse reported.

Amelina is a popular writer and winner of several literary awards. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she has documented the “war crimes” committed by Moscow’s forces in her country.

He also volunteered to help children living on the front lines.

Her first non-fiction book is forthcoming in English, A Memoir of War and Justice: Looking at Women Looking Four for War.