The suspected mastermind of the killing of a volunteer servicewoman of the special operation in Donbas, Amina Okuyeva, has been detained, Ukrainian National Police chief Ihor Klymenko said on Jan. 12.
“The criminal group consisted of seven people; some of them were detained on suspicion of two murders in September 2019. Today, operatives apprehended the mastermind of Amina Okuyeva’s murder and of an assassination attempt on her husband Adam,” Klymenko said, who is quoted by the police press service.
The murder attempt on Okuyeva and her husband and an ethnic Chechen man, Adam Osmayev, was perpetrated on October 30, 2017. Gunmen fired assault rifles at their car at a railroad crossing in Kyiv region. Okuyeva was killed and Osmayev sustained injuries in the attack.
A DNA sample taken from a suspect detained on Jan. 12 and a DNA sample taken from a weapon dropped at Okuyeva’s murder scene were found to be identical, Klymenko said.
“All of the investigative activities required are under way. In addition, the involvement of the detainees in other crimes is being looked into,” the statement said.
