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Russians do pronounce it like Aksana, because the Russian o often sounds more like a than o.
In Ukrainian it's pronounced with an o sound, as you can see since it's also on the forvo page.
It would make sense that they'd follow the Russian pronunciation over the Ukrainian pronounciation, because they border Russia and not Ukraine.
So it's probably a variant of Oksana from the Russian pronounciation used in Central Asia because of the way it sounds.