Amina Okueva

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.

[1] Upon arrival in Ukraine she enrolled at the Odesa National Medical University where she specialized in general surgery before working as an intern at a local hospital.

She 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.

[3] She ran in the 2014 Parliamentary election as a self-nominated candidate in the Suvorovskyi Raion of Odesa while she was a police officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; she received only 3.72% of the vote, putting her in ninth place.

[5][6] A man masquerading as a French journalist from Le Monde opened fire on Okueva and her husband while they were in their car on Kyrylivska Street in Kyiv on 1 June 2017.

Her husband Osmaev was only injured in the leg and began first aid before calling for emergency services and driving away, but was not successful in his efforts to save her.