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| name = Amina Viktorivna Okueva
| birth_name = Natalia Viktorivna Nikiforova
| native_name = {{Nobold|Аміна Вікторівна Окуєва}}
| native_name_lang = uk
| image = Amina_Okueva.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1983|6|5|df=yes}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|10|30|1983|6|5|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[OdessaOdesa]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| death_place = [[Hlevakha]], [[Vasylkiv Raion]],<br>[[Kyiv Oblast]], [[Ukraine]]
| nickname = Anastasiya
| nationality = {{UKR}}
| spouse = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|Isa Mustafinov<br />|2000|2003|reason=d}}|{{marriage|Islam Tukhashev<br />|reason=div}}|{{marriage|[[Adam OsmaevOsmayev]]<br />|2009|}}}}
| occupation = Police Lieutenant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
| alma_mater = [[OdessaOdesa National Medical University]]
| awards = [[:uk:Орден «Народний Герой України»|People's Hero of Ukraine]]<!---Not the same as [[Hero of Ukraine]]--->
}}
'''Amina Viktorivna Okueva''' ({{Lang-uk|Аміна Вікторівна Окуєва}}; 5 June 1983 – 30 October 2017) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] -born doctor of [[Chechens|Chechen]]-[[Polish people|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 [[Russia]]n-aligned rebels in 2015. She was killed in an ambush by unknown attackers on 30 October 2017. Her husband [[Adam OsmaevOsmayev]], a leader of the [[Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion]], was injured in the ambush but survived.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/who-was-amina-okueva-the-chechen-ukrainian-snipet-killed-last-week|title=Who Was Amina Okueva, The Chechen-Ukrainian Sniper Killed This Week?|work=Hromadske|access-date=2018-01-31}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41811969|title=Man 'who plotted to kill Putin' wounded|date=2017-10-31|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-06-20|language=en-GB}}</ref>
== Early life ==
Okueva was born Natalia Nikiforova in [[OdessaOdesa]] in 1983. An only child, and the daughter of a [[Chechens|Chechen]] father and a [[PolesPolish people|Polish]] mother from the [[North Caucasus]], Okueva did not know her father due to his early death.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} She 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.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/who-was-amina-okueva-the-chechen-ukrainian-snipet-killed-last-week|title=Who Was Amina Okueva, The Chechen-Ukrainian Sniper Killed This Week?|website=en.hromadske.ua|access-date=2020-01-27}}</ref> After her conversion and marriage to Isa Mustafinov, she changed her first name to Amina.<ref name=":2" /> She changed her surname to Okueva after a second marriage.<ref name=":2" /> Upon arrival in Ukraine she enrolled at the [[OdessaOdesa National Medical University]] where she specialized in general surgery before working as an intern at a local hospital. She was married three times; her first husband, Isa Mustafinov, whom she married in 2000, died in 2003 during the [[Second Chechen War]]. Islam Tukhashev, her second husband, was deported from Ukraine for illegally staying in the country and was later sentenced to life imprisonment in Russia for the murder of Russian intelligence officers in [[Ingushetia]]; due to his residency status the marriage was not registered in Ukraine. In 2009 she met [[Adam OsmaevOsmayev]], who is currently accused of attempting to assassinate [[Vladimir Putin]]; they later had a wedding ceremony but did not officially register the marriage.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-41815853|title=Жінка-воїн Аміна Окуєва: що про неї відомо?|date=2017-10-31|work=BBC News Україна|access-date=2018-06-20|language=uk}}</ref>
== Euromaidan, military, and political activities ==
After the start of [[Euromaidan]] she joined a unit of [[Afghanistan]] veterans by staffing a medical tent during the protests. She joined the "Kyiv-2" battalion to serve as a [[paramedic]] in Eastern Ukraine after the start of the [[War in Donbas (2014–2022)|conflict]], but she did not practice medicine much while she was there, and directly participated in the [[Battle of Debaltseve]] in [[Luhansk Oblast]]. She also served as press secretary for the [[Dzhokhar Dudayev Battalion]].<ref name=":3" />
She ran in the 2014 Parliamentary election as a self-nominated candidate in the Suvorovskyi Raion of OdessaOdesa 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/WP407?pt001f01=910&pf7201=14305|title=Центральна виборча комісія України - WWW відображення ІАС "Вибори народних депутатів України 2014"|website=cvk.gov.ua|language=uk|access-date=2018-06-21}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/WP040?PT001F01=910&pf7331=136|title=Центральна виборча комісія України - WWW відображення ІАС "Вибори народних депутатів України 2014"|website=cvk.gov.ua|language=uk|access-date=2018-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621194120/http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/WP040?PT001F01=910&pf7331=136|archive-date=2018-06-21|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Attempted assassination ==
[[Category:Ukrainian Muslims]]
[[Category:Converts to Islam]]
[[Category:Ukrainian female military personnel]]
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