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Ukrainians accused of participating in battles in Chechnya were sentenced to 22.5 and 20 years in prison
The judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, Vakhit Ismailov, sentenced Nikolai Karpyuk, who were found guilty of participating in hostilities in Chechnya in 1994-1996 on the side of the separatists and the murder of Russian soldiers, to 22.5 years in a strict regime colony, and Stanislav Klykh to 20 years. Journalist Anton Naumlyuk reports this on his Facebook page.
The state prosecution earlier demanded that Karpyuk be sentenced to 22.5 years in a strict regime colony, and Stanislav Klykh to 22 years.
Earlier, a jury found guilty of those accused of participating in battles in Chechnya. At the same time, the jury indicated that Stanislav Klykh deserves leniency.
According to investigators, the Ukrainians, being members of the nationalist organization UNA-UNSO, now banned in Russia, arrived in Tbilisi to go to Chechnya, where they intended to take part in hostilities against federal troops. On December 31, 1994, they allegedly took part in the battles for Grozny, fought in the area of the railway station and Minutka Square, and killed and wounded several dozen Russian soldiers. Karpyuk and Klykh claim that they were not in Chechnya until the start of the trial.
upd: The judge announced to the lawyers of the defendants Dokka Itslaev and Marina Dubrovina a private ruling for "acts discrediting the honor and dignity of a lawyer."