Deputies of Dnipro city council during a session on June 24 decided to assign one of the city streets the name of the volunteer soldier who fought Russian-backed forces in Donbas, Amina Okuyeva.
According to the press service of Dnipro City Council, on June 24, during a regular session, deputies accepted the decision to provide the name in the new passage in the area of Liberation Lane in Amur-Nyzhniodniprovsky District.
“Now the street will be named after the doctor and military Amina Okuyeva. The corresponding decision was made on the basis of letters of appeal from public organizations,” the statement said.
As reported, Okuyeva, who served in the ranks of Kyiv-2 police battalion, was killed and her husband, Adam Osmayev, was wounded. Their car came under fire at a railway crossing near the village of Hlevakha in Kyiv region late on Oct. 30. Kyiv’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) opened a criminal investigation pursuant to Point 11 of Part 2 of Article 115 (premeditated murder) of Ukraine’s Criminal Code.
The suspect in the attempted murder of volunteers, was transferred to the territory of self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics in June 2017, as a part of an exchange of prisoners on Dec. 29, 2019.
