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Raiana, a drone operator with the Sheikh Mansur Chechen Volunteer Battalion in Ukraine, has been killed in action, Ukrainska Pravda reported on 15 November 2026. She was reported to be the first woman in the battalion, where she had become the only woman, and she is to be buried in Odesa, where her family lives. A Muslim who attended a mosque in Kyiv, she had been in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, where she protected the mosque until the end, according to Olha Konoval, head of the foundation named after Hero of Ukraine Serhii Konoval. Before the war she taught Thai boxing and raised her son; in 2024 she took drone piloting courses to join the military, and she destroyed Russian equipment on the Donetsk front while also running the battalion's food supply headquarters. Defender Murad Nasirov wrote that her faith, courage and self-sacrifice would remain in memory. Ukrainska Pravda also reported that the report gave no details on where or when she was killed.