Ukrainian writer and war crimes researcher Victoria Amelina has died after succumbing to her injuries from the missile attack on a Ukrainian pizzeria in Kramatorsk.
The 37-year-old, among the dozens of civilian casualties in the Russian missile strike, had been admitted to a hospital in Dnipro last Tuesday.
Doctors there “did everything they could to save her life but unfortunately the wound was fatal”, writers’ association PEN Ukraine said in a statement.
The death toll in the attack has now risen to 13. The strike was carried out using S-300 missiles, Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian general Oleksander Tarnavskiy said his country’s forces were “systematically destroying the enemy” and claimed “several hundred” Russian soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours.
Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, General Valery Zaluzhniy, also reported steady, if slow, advances in the counteroffensive.
The fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces is mostly flaring in Ukraine’s east and south, where the deputy defence minister reported fierce clashes. “Everywhere things are hot,” she said in a daily update.