The Ukrainian PEN Club reported on its website that Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina died after a missile attack in Kramatorsk.
“It is with great sadness that we inform you that on July 1, at the Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, the heart of the writer Victoria Amelina stopped beating. His life was interrupted by a wound incompatible with life, the writers’ organization said.
PEN Ukraine added that the family provided separate information about the time and place of separation with Victoria in Kiev and Lvov.
Victoria Amelina was born on January 1, 1986 in Lviv. He published his first novel, November Syndrome, or Homo Compatiens, in 2014. His first children’s book, Biri Ya Su Kalbi, was published in 2016. Amelina’s novel “A Home for a Home” has been shortlisted for the LitAccent of the Year 2017, UNESCO City Prize for Literature and the European Prize for Literature.
Amelina founded the New York Literature Festival, held in the village of New York in the Bakhmutsky district of the Donetsk region in 2021.
June 28 journalists asked Russian President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov will comment on Kiev’s statement that civilians were killed due to Russian attacks on Kramatorsk in Ukraine. “Russia is not hitting civilian infrastructure, it is hitting objects related to military infrastructure,” he replied.
Later in the Russian Ministry of Defense declarationHe said that as a result of the strike, which took place on June 27 at the point where Ukrainian troops were temporarily deployed in Kramatorsk, two generals and up to 50 officers from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as up to 20 mercenaries and military advisers were destroyed.