<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">A Ukrainian writer and war crimes investigator wounded in a Russian missile strike on a restaurant last week has died, the freedom of expression group PEN said on Sunday.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Victoria Amelina, 37, was wounded when a Russian missile destroyed the Ria Pizza restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including children, and wounding dozens.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"With our greatest pain, we inform you that Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina passed away on July 1st in Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro," PEN Ukraine said in a statement on its Facebook page.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Amelina had been in the city with a delegation of Colombian journalists and writers, PEN said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She was hospitalised with "multiple skull fractures", according to a surgeon treating the wounded.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her novel "Dom's Dream Kingdom" was published in 2017 and shortlisted for the UNESCO City of Literature Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature, according to PEN.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her poems, prose and essays have been translated into English, German, Polish and other languages.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since 2022 she had been working to document Russian war crimes since the invasion and advocate for accountability, PEN said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ria Pizza in Kramatorsk -- one of the largest cities still under Ukrainian control in the east -- was popular with soldiers, journalists and aid workers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Amelina's death takes the toll of the strike to 13. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>