A Ukrainian author and conflict crimes investigator wounded in a Russian missile strike on a restaurant last week has died, the liberty of expression group PEN mentioned on Sunday.

Victoria Amelina, 37, was wounded when a Russian missile destroyed the Ria Pizza restaurant within the japanese metropolis of Kramatorsk on Tuesday, killing 12 folks, together with kids, and wounding dozens.

“With our greatest pain, we inform you that Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina passed away on July 1st in Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro,” PEN Ukraine mentioned in a press release on its Facebook web page.

Amelina had been within the metropolis with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers, PEN mentioned.

She was hospitalised with “multiple skull fractures”, in keeping with a surgeon treating the wounded.

Her novel “Dom’s Dream Kingdom” was printed in 2017 and shortlisted for the UNESCO City of Literature Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature, in keeping with PEN.

Her poems, prose and essays have been translated into English, German, Polish and different languages.

Since 2022 she had been working to doc Russian conflict crimes for the reason that invasion and advocate for accountability, PEN mentioned.

Ria Pizza in Kramatorsk — one of many largest cities nonetheless below Ukrainian management within the east — was standard with troopers, journalists and support staff.

Amelina’s demise takes the toll of the strike to 13.