Amina Okujewa (1983-2017) – chirurżka na wojnie XXI wieku. In memoriam

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Amina Viktorivna Okueva (Ukrainian: ????? ?????????? ??????); was a Ukrainian doctor of Chechen descent, 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 Osmaev, a leader of the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion. Okueva was killed in a military-style ambush on 30 October 2017 near the village of Hlevakha, Kyiv Oblast. Unidentified attackers opened fire on the car containing her and her husband while it slowed by a railroad crossing, firing five rounds into her including two fatal rounds into her head. Adam Osmaev was injured in the ambush but survived.