Amina Okueva

Amina Viktorivna Okueva
Amina Viktorivna Okueva
Аміна Вікторівна Окуєва
Born	Natalia Viktorivna Nikiforova; 5 June 1983; Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	30 October 2017 (aged 34); Hlevakha, Vasylkiv Raion,; Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
Nationality	Ukraine
Other names	Anastasiya
Alma mater	Odesa National Medical University
Occupation	Police Lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
Spouses	Isa Mustafinov; (m. 2000; died 2003); Islam Tukhashev; (divorced); Adam Osmayev; (m. 2009);
Awards	People's Hero of Ukraine

Amina Viktorivna Okueva (Ukrainian: Аміна Вікторівна Окуєва; 5 June 1983 – 30 October 2017) was a Ukrainian-born doctor of Chechen-Polish descent, Euromaidan activist, convert to Islam, and police lieutenant. During the Euromaidan she worked as a medic in the Kyiv-2 battalion and saw combat in the city of Debaltseve after it was taken over by Russian-aligned rebels in 2015. She was killed in an ambush by unknown attackers on 30 October 2017. Her husband Adam Osmayev, a leader of the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion, was injured in the ambush but survived.

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