Post by Jaga on Nov 1, 2017 3:42:17 GMT -7
Putin probably knew and maybe collaborate with this act of terror
Assassinations in Ukraine’s Capital Raise Spectre of a Russian ‘Shadow War’
KYIV, Ukraine—A Chechen woman who had fought on the side of Ukrainian forces against Russia and its separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine died in a brazen vehicular ambush on the outskirts of Kyiv on Monday.
The ambush underscored what some Ukrainian government officials and security analysts suspect is part of a larger Russian shadow war intended to destabilize the country.
“It looks very much like an ongoing shadow war conducted by Russian intelligence,” Taras Berezovets, founder of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, a Kyiv-based defense think tank, told The Daily Signal.
Amina Okueva— who served as a combat medic and press officer with Ukraine’s Kyiv-2 police battalion—was killed during an attack at a railroad crossing about 16 miles outside of Kyiv’s city center, and more than 400 miles distant from the front lines in Ukraine’s embattled southeastern Donbas region.
“It may be a part of Russian covert operations to destabilize the situation in Ukraine,” Berezovets said of the attack. “To show no Russian or Chechen dissident can feel safe in Ukraine.”
Okueva’s husband, Adam Osmayev, was in the car during the ambush; he survived the attack and is currently being treated in a Kyiv hospital.
Osmayev is the former commander of the Dzhohar Dudaev peacekeeping battalion—a volunteer pro-Ukrainian military unit that is named after the late Chechen rebel leader who led an insurgency against Russian forces in the 1990s.
“It is difficult to choose words when people die,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman wrote Tuesday on Facebook in reaction to Okueva’s murder. “Only sorrow in my heart. Eternal memory to the true patriot of Ukraine.”
Assassinations in Ukraine’s Capital Raise Spectre of a Russian ‘Shadow War’
KYIV, Ukraine—A Chechen woman who had fought on the side of Ukrainian forces against Russia and its separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine died in a brazen vehicular ambush on the outskirts of Kyiv on Monday.
The ambush underscored what some Ukrainian government officials and security analysts suspect is part of a larger Russian shadow war intended to destabilize the country.
“It looks very much like an ongoing shadow war conducted by Russian intelligence,” Taras Berezovets, founder of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, a Kyiv-based defense think tank, told The Daily Signal.
Amina Okueva— who served as a combat medic and press officer with Ukraine’s Kyiv-2 police battalion—was killed during an attack at a railroad crossing about 16 miles outside of Kyiv’s city center, and more than 400 miles distant from the front lines in Ukraine’s embattled southeastern Donbas region.
“It may be a part of Russian covert operations to destabilize the situation in Ukraine,” Berezovets said of the attack. “To show no Russian or Chechen dissident can feel safe in Ukraine.”
Okueva’s husband, Adam Osmayev, was in the car during the ambush; he survived the attack and is currently being treated in a Kyiv hospital.
Osmayev is the former commander of the Dzhohar Dudaev peacekeeping battalion—a volunteer pro-Ukrainian military unit that is named after the late Chechen rebel leader who led an insurgency against Russian forces in the 1990s.
“It is difficult to choose words when people die,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman wrote Tuesday on Facebook in reaction to Okueva’s murder. “Only sorrow in my heart. Eternal memory to the true patriot of Ukraine.”
