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Agence France-Presse

A Chechen volunteer soldier who has been accused of plotting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin was wounded and his wife killed Monday when their car was strafed by gunfire near Kiev, Ukraine.
The apparent assassination was the latest involving high-profile figures in Ukraine who bitterly opposed Russia.
Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said Amina Okuyeva died and her husband Adam Osmayev was injured when their car was hit by a hail of bullets while crossing a railroad track.
“Adam Osmayev was wounded, but he will live,” Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook.
“I just spoke to him by phone.”
Interior ministry spokesman Yaroslav Trakalo confirmed Okuyeva’s death to the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
In 2012 Osmayev was accused by the Russian authorities of plotting to kill Putin.
Kiev explosion kills bodyguard, wounds Ukrainian MP and two others
He was held for two and a half years in a Ukrainian prison but never extradited to Russia.
A second suspect in that case was sentenced in 2013 to 10 years in prison after being handed over to the Russian authorities.
Osmayev had already survived an assassination attempt in Kiev on June 1. The assailant was shot dead by Okuyeva – a fellow Chechen volunteer fighter in Ukraine – on that occasion.
The June bid to kill Osmayev was staged by a man who initially presented himself as a journalist with a French newspaper.
The Ukrainian interior ministry later identified the assailant as a Russian citizen.
The locally renowned husband-and-wife team fought as volunteers alongside Ukrainian forces battling Russian-backed insurgents in the east of the war-scarred state.
Monday’s attack occurred less than a week after Ukraine opened a terror probe into a bombing that wounded a nationalist Ukrainian lawmaker in Kiev.
Radical Party member Igor Mosiychuk was walking out of a television studio after giving an interview Wednesday when an explosive device went off near a scooter parked on the street.
Mosiychuk’s bodyguard died on the way to hospital and a passer-by was killed at the scene.
Both Mosiychuk and Ukrainian prosecutors said they suspected the Russian security services of being behind the attack.
That blast was the latest in a string of politically charged bombings to have hit the Ukrainian capital since last year.
Former Russian lawmaker Denis Voronenkov, a Kremlin critic who had moved to Kiev, was gunned down in broad daylight in the Ukrainian capital in March.
A car bomb killed journalist Pavlo Sheremet in July 2016. The independent Ukrainska Pravda news site’s reporter had denounced the political courses taken by both Russia and Ukraine.
And a colonel with the Ukrainian defence ministry’s intelligence service was killed when his car exploded in Kiev in June.
All three cases remain unsolved and Russia has rejected all charges of involvement.


Suspect in Putin assassination plot is wounded, wife killed, in hail of bullets in Ukraine

Investigators work at the site where Amina Okuyeva was shot dead in her car in the small town of Hlevakha, some 30km south of Kiev, late on Monday. Chechen volunteer soldier Adam Osmayev, Okuyeva’s husband who was accused of plotting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin, was wounded ain the attack. Photo: Agence France-Presse

Volunteer fighter Omina Okuyeva cleans her mashine gun in a military training camp not far from Kiev on July 29, 2014. A Chechen volunteer soldier who was accused of plotting to kill Russian President Vladimir Putin was wounded and his wife was killed on October 30, 2017, when their car was attacked near Kiev. The apparent assassination was the latest involving high-profile figures in Ukraine who bitterly opposed Russia. Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said Omina Okuyeva died and her husband Adam Osmayev was injured when their car was hit by a hail of bullets while crossing a railroad track. / AFP PHOTO / Anatolii STEPANOV

epa06299128 Adam Osmayev looks on in Kiev, Ukraine, 21 April 2016 (issued 31 October 2017). Adam Osmayev, a former battalion commander for Ukraine during the conflict with Russian-backed seperatist in 2014, was injured and his wife Amina Okueva was killed in an ambush shooting on 30 October 2017. As a schoolboy, Osmaev was convicted of plotting to assassinate Russian president Vladimir Putin. The identity of the attackers is not known. EPA-EFE/VOLODYMYR PETROV

Kiev explosion kills bodyguard, wounds Ukrainian MP and two others

A wounded man is loaded into an ambulance after an explosion in Kiev late on Wednesday that injured a Ukrainian lawmaker was wounded and killed his bodyguard. Photo: Agence France-Presse

epa06289630 Ukrainian lawmaker Igor Mosiychuk looks on in Kiev, Ukraine, 24 October 2017 (issued 26 October 2017). Igor Mosiychuk was wounded and his bodyguard killed on 25 October in a bombing attack that his party called an assassination attempt. According to local media reports, Radical Party member Igor Mosiychuk was walking out the TV station Espreso studio after an interview when an explosive device went off near a scooter on the street. EPA-EFE/STEPAN FRANKO

epa06289618 Policemen examine a crime scene after an explosion, in which an Ukrainian lawmaker Igor Mosiychuk was wounded and his bodyguard killed in Kiev, Ukraine, 25 October 2017. A Ukrainian lawmaker was wounded and his bodyguard killed on 25 October in a bombing attack that his party called an assassination attempt. According to local media reports, Radical Party member Igor Mosiychuk was walking out the TV station Espreso studio after an interview when an explosive device went off near a scooter on the street. EPA-EFE/STEPAN FRANKO

On Tuesday, this Putin critic feared he would never be forgiven. On Thursday, he was shot in the head

The body of Denis Voronenkov, a former lawmaker of the Russian State Duma, is seen in central Kiev, Ukraine, on Thursday, after his street assassination. Photo: Reuters

Former lawmaker of the Russian State Duma Denis Voronenkov and his wife Maria Maksakova pose for a picture during a screening of the movie "Nemtsov" by Vladimir Kara-Murza in Kiev, Ukraine February 27, 2017. Picture taken February 27, 2016. REUTERS/Oleksandr Synytsia EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE.

An assassin, who shot and killed Denis Voronenkov, lies wounded in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, March 23, 2017. Ukrainian police said Voronenkov was shot dead Thursday by an unidentified gunman at the entrance of an upscale hotel in the Ukrainian capital. Voronenkov, 45, a former member of the communist faction in the lower house of Russian parliament, had moved to Ukraine last fall and had been granted Ukrainian citizenship. (AP Photo/Alisa Berezutsskaya)

epa05865822 Ukrainian policemen stand around the slain body of Denis Voronenkov (on ground) in downtown Kiev, Ukraine, 23 March 2017. Voronenkov, a former deputy of the Russian State Duma along with his bodyguard were killed, their alleged killer reportedly was injured in a shootout in downtown Kiev the same afternoon. Denis Voronenkov fled Russia and received Ukrainian citizenship in December 2016. He was one of the major witnesses in the trial for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev. Media reports state that the Ukrainian prosecution blames the Russsian secret service for the killing. EPA/ANDREW KRAVCHENKO

Policemen hold Maria Maksakova, wife of Denis Voronenkov, as she reacts near his body in the center of Kiev on March 23, 2017. Former Russian MP Denis Voronenkov, who moved to Ukraine last year and is wanted by Russia for fraud, was shot dead in Kiev on March 23, 2017, Ukrainian police said. Ukrainian President blamed Russia for the murder of Voronenkov, saying it was an "act of state terrorism." / AFP PHOTO / Sergei SUPINSKY

epa05861762 Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives for a meeting with South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov (not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 21 March 2017. EPA/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / POOL

An Ukrainian police inspects a gun at the scene where former Russian MP Denis Voronenkov was shot dead on March 23, 2017 in the center of Kiev. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko blamed Russia for the murder of Voronenkov, who moved to Ukraine last year and was wanted by Russia for fraud, saying it was an "act of state terrorism." / AFP PHOTO / Sergei SUPINSKY

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