The National Police of Ukraine reported that a man attacked two Ukrainian veterans, Adam Osmayev and Amina Okuyeva, in downtown Kyiv on June 1 at 16:49. Osmayev was shot and wounded in the chest, but Okuyeva managed to fire four shots at the attacker with her TT pistol which she was awarded with for the service in a police regiment.
Foes of the Chechen leader?
In 2007, the Russian authorities accused Adam Osmayev, a native of Chechnya who still lived in Russia, of plotting to kill head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. The case collapsed for lack of evidence and he moved to Ukraine. In 2012, Osmayev was arrested in Ukraine and charged with possession of illegal explosives, damaging private property, and forgery. At the request the Russian authorities, he was later charged with plotting to kill Putin. In late 2014, the post-Maidan Ukrainian authorities dropped the attempted assassination charge. In 2014, he entered the volunteer Dzhokar Dudayev Battalion comprised mostly of Chechens who had fled Kadyrov's regime to the West. The battalion fought against Russia's military aggression in the Donbas. In 2015, Adam Osmayev became a commander of the battalion after the death of brigadier general Isa Munayev amid the Debaltseve battle. Amina Okuyeva fought alongside her husband. In her recent interview with Apostrophe.ua, Amina Okyeva said:All the time we receive some information about the facts of the orders by both Russian special services and Kadyrov's formations on attempts upon our lives. Therefore, we, of course, stay alerted, focused, we try to cover each other, carry arms.
Identifying the attacker
The attacker on Adam Osmayev received his passport of a citizen of Ukraine and a passport for foreign travel in February 2016. Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, MP Anton Geraschenko wrote on Facebook, "The killer had on him the documents of a Ukrainian citizen Dakar Oleksandr Venusovych, 1958. Now the police and security forces are verifying the data on this citizen, whether he exists, as well as checking his background." Espreso.tv states that the real name of the attacker, who attempted to assassinate Osmayev and Okuyeva in Kyiv, is Artur Kurmakaev, born Demisultanov, who worked for Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya. Espreso.tv did not disclose their sources of information, but the fake French reporter who shot Adam Osmayev really resembles Russian criminal Artur Kurmakaev very much:
SBU has no evidence of Russian special services' involvement
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) didn't confirm information about the involvement of Russian special services in the assassination attempt. "At the moment, we have no such confirmed data," deputy chief of the SBU branch in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast Pavlo Daniukov said. [hr] Read more:- Who killed Putin critic Voronenkov in Kyiv? Everything we know + video
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