Amina Okuyeva, known as a hero in Ukraine, was murdered in a military ambush in October of 2017. She gave her life fighting against Putin’s reign of violence in Ukraine.
A veteran sniper and doctor, Amina Okuyeva and her husband, Adam Osmayev, were riding in a car past a railroad crossing. Their vehicle came under heavy
fire from someone in the bushes on the side of the road. While Osmayev was injured, Okuyeva was killed.
This was not the first time Putin had sent assassins to kill the hero couple. Amina was able to thwart an attack on their lives earlier that same year when a Kremlin sent a killer, posing as a journalist, to take them out. Amina was not only able to save her husband’s life after he was shot but she also took down the assassin by herself.
Amina Okuyeva truly embodied all of the characteristics beloved by those who value freedom and strength. Unfortunately, those are also the qualities Putin despises in women. Russia’s misogynist dictator can not bear to see women stand up to his abuses of human rights and his disgusting treatment of both his own people and those outside his borders.