Amina Okueva. Call Sign "Sur". Serves as Lieutenant of the battalion of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine "Golden gate", is also press officer of the International peacekeeping battalion behalf of Dzhokhar Dudayev. 31 years.

About this on his page in Facebook wrote the Cyborgs-2015 - art project about the heroes of our time.

-- Amina Chechen origin. But she's a citizen and patriot of Ukraine. She actively participated in the events on Maidan. When in the East anti-terrorist operation began, she enlisted in the volunteer battalion "Kiev-2".

Amina was born in Odessa: "I always proudly say: Ukraine is my Motherland, Odessa is the birthplace of. My mom is from the North Caucasus came to Odessa to study. This is where I was born. Then we lived in Moscow, where I graduated from high school and got married the first time. But the circumstances were such that newly appeared in Odessa. Actually fled from Moscow, where in the midst of the second Chechen war, "Gentiles" exist was difficult. In Odessa, I graduated from the medical University. He worked as a surgeon Intern. And when the Maidan began, went to Kiev — was a doctor in the medical tent of Euromaidan. Together with the eighth "Afghan hundred" stood on the street Grushevskogo. Our centurion Oleg Mikhnyuk recently died in the area ATO. Many of the guys from that hundreds have died... to Risk their lives for a cause, for true Muslim is Jihad -- armed struggle. The war with the separatists and terrorists in the East of the country — this is my personal Jihad."

Amina wore a hijab -- a Muslim womens clothes x-ray includes a headscarf that covers the hair. In the war, she replaced it on the Balaclava, which has not parted. "I wear hijab for almost fourteen years. Few people know that the hijab was the reason for the searches, arrests, interrogations, humiliation in Chechnya (as we call our Homeland, which proclaimed the independence of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria). Since the invasion of Russian troops there have passed 20 years. But the invaders still detained, tortured and tormented girls in hijabs. Kidding, rip them clothes..."

Russian bloggers called Okueva "Chechen terrorist". Almost every day through Facebook and Twitter she receives threats from Chechens living in Russia, which are loyal to Kadyrov. But ukrainskuyu a Chechen is not scared. "Kadyrov's henchmen should understand that they have no religion or homeland. They sold everything for money murderers of his people. For the money of Putin, the same inadequate, as Kadyrov. Therefore, we will continue to fight them".

Amina is married to Adam Osmayev, who in 2012 was arrested for allegedly preparing an attempt on Putin, which was to take place immediately after the March elections of the President of the Russian Federation. Almost three years Adam spent in prison. Three days later, after the release directly in a court hall, he went as a volunteer to the East, where he became a soldier of the international peacekeeping battalion behalf of Dzhokhar Dudayev. After the death of commander ISA Munayev Adam Osman headed the unit.

Amina herself in the first days of the armed conflict joined the battalion "Kiev-2" — became his assistant. "If necessary to battle along with all — whether you're a paramedic, though, chef. I like military science. I do not exclude that after the war I will connect the life with either military medicine or go to any hot spot with some peacekeeping troops. I like the way it feels, the adrenaline, the drive, which happens to be at the front, but I must be sure to understand that we are fighting for justice. That is not a war for the sake of war. It is important for me to understand that we stand for what is right".

When Amina asked, how difficult is it for a woman in war, she responds:

"At the front feel at one with the team and don't feel much of a difference. We have listed 4 girls, but in the ATO only took me. Just in the battalions are not very willing to take women. Need to prove, to get what you really really want, what you deserve and what you will benefit. Men from this point of view look at it: do not give anything hard to do, not allowed in dangerous places. I'm fighting it. If you took me here, so let's be on a par. I'm curious to give it my all. I went to the clothes with ordinary men, was never absent from other work. At first the guys tried many me off this case to dismiss when, for example, had to carry bags of sand or earth. We even conflicts on this soil happened. But if I lift this bag, so I can't pick it up. And let me do the work I can, and all you are doing is wrong.

In war, the most painful is the death of children. There, at the front, people very quickly become close-family. And we in the battalion a lot of people that have been twinned since Maidan. For them very worried. But I don't tend to cry or have a tantrum. Profound things I experience alone, as a rule, confined. I am a man of action, very rarely I lose heart. And if it happens, the maximum for 1-2 days, when I just lie down, or sit at the computer, and then it gets boring and you just want to join in the fight.

My global dream is that all peoples who are under the yoke of the Russian Empire, that prison finally broke. And I was able to build its future, being free."

Violetta kirtoka of the Newspaper "FACTS" and the website "Censor"

photo: Roman Nikolayev

Source: «Кіборги - 2015» / Cyborgs - 2015

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