Amina Okueva
Amina Viktorivna Okueva | |
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Аміна Вікторівна Окуєва | |
| Born | Natalia Viktorivna Nikiforova 5 June 1983 |
| Died | 30 October 2017 (aged 34) |
| Nationality | Ukraine |
| Other names | Anastasiya |
| Alma mater | Odesa National Medical University |
| Occupation | Police Lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine |
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| 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.