<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">The award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries after a Russian missile hit a pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The war crimes researcher becomes the 13th person to have died in the attack.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The writers' association PEN Ukraine said doctors "did everything they could to save her life, but unfortunately the wound was fatal".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Human rights activists have called the attack a war crime.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kramatorsk is under Ukrainian control but is close to Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Amelina, 37, was dining with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers in the city's popular Ria Lounge when the missile hit. Around 60 others were injured in the attack.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She was rushed to hospital in Dnipro, but succumbed to her injuries on Friday, PEN Ukraine said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"In the last days of Victoria's life, her family and friends were by her side."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">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.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her first non-fiction book in English, War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War, is due to be published.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In an earlier statement confirming that Amelina had been injured in the attack, PEN Ukraine and war crimes watchdog Truth Hounds said that members of both groups had travelled to the frontlines with Amelina.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Now, Victoria has become a victim of a war crime herself," they said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A post pinned to her Twitter profile shows Amelina taking a photo of a bombed building in Ukraine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It's me in this picture," the post reads.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I'm a Ukrainian writer. I have portraits of great Ukrainian poets on my bag. I look like I should be taking pictures of books, art, and my little son. But I document Russia's war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems. Why?" BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>