11 Facts About Amina Okueva

Amina Viktorivna Okueva was a Ukrainian-born doctor of Chechen-Polish descent, Euromaidan activist, convert to Islam, and police lieutenant.

Amina Okueva was killed in an ambush by unknown attackers on 30 October 2017.

An only child, and the daughter of a Chechen father and a Polish mother from the North Caucasus, Okueva did not know her father due to his early death.

Amina Okueva lived with her family in Moscow and Grozny before moving back to Ukraine in 2003 after fighting on the side of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria the Second Chechen War, having converted to Islam at the age of 17.

Amina Okueva changed her surname to Okueva after a second marriage.

Amina Okueva was married three times; her first husband, Isa Mustafinov, whom she married in 2000, died in 2003 during the Second Chechen War.

Amina Okueva joined the "Kyiv-2" battalion to serve as a paramedic in Eastern Ukraine after the start of the conflict, but she did not practice medicine much while she was there, and directly participated in the Battle of Debaltseve in Luhansk Oblast.

Amina Okueva served as press secretary for the Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion.

Amina Okueva was killed in a military-style ambush on 30 October 2017 near the village of Hlevakha, Kyiv Oblast.

Amina Okueva was buried in Dnipro in the Muslim section of the Krasnopil cemetery near the Dnieper on 1 November 2017, next to the grave of Isa Munayev, where she stated in her will she wanted to be buried.

Amina Okueva's family did not attend the public farewell ceremony fearing that the event could become a target for an attack, and the funeral itself took place under armed guard.