Chechen volunteer Amina Okueva was murdered in Kyiv on Monday evening. The tragedy occurred in Kyiv region. Amina and her husband Adam Osmaev were driving home and stopped at a railroad crossing in the village of Glevakha, when two killers opened fire from machineguns.
Osmaev who drove the car was wounded to the leg and survived; he underwent surgery and now stays at a hospital. Amina was fatally shot in the head. Adam Osmaev, the police and the security service claimed there is a group of Russian saboteurs behind the attack. The search of the perpetrators is underway. The attack on the married couple is qualified as a contracted murder.
Amina Okueva served as a medic, formerly the fighter of Kyiv-2 special task force of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry. She volunteered during the Euromaidan movement in 2014 and then joined the government troops to fight the pro-Russian militants in Donbas conflict. Like her husband, Amina was considered the major enemy of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
